Shelah LXX inserts "Cainan" before "Shelah"; and states that "Cainan lived 130 years, and begat Shelah, and lived after he begat Shelah 330 years."

The additional name of Cainan equalizes the list of names with that in chap. 5. But it is also omitted in the parallel list of 1 Chronicles 1:24. And it is suspicious that the figures are the same as those of Shelah (in the LXX).

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