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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Edar (Levite living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness)

A Levite, named twice in the Levite rolls of 1 Chronicles 23 and 24. The tower of Eder near Bethlehem, where Jacob camped after Rachel died, shares the name and nothing more.

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A Levite, named twice in the Levite rolls of 1 Chronicles 23 and 24. The tower of Eder near Bethlehem, where Jacob camped after Rachel died, shares the name and nothing more.

Who this is

The tower of Eder was a landmark near Bethlehem where Jacob camped after Rachel's death, later invoked poetically by Micah as an image of Jerusalem's coming restoration.

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H5740

Where it appears
  • 1 Chronicles 23:23
  • 1 Chronicles 24:30

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