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Shammah

son of Reuel

A grandson of Esau through Reuel, listed in the Edomite chief-rolls of Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1.

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Shammah was a son of and a grandson of through Basemath. He is listed in the genealogies of Genesis 36:13, 17 and 1 Chronicles 1:37 as one of the sons of Reuel who became chiefs (or "dukes") of Edom. The Bible records no narrative about Shammah beyond his inclusion in these ancestral lists of the clans that descended from Esau and settled in the land of .

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