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After the time of Abimelech1 a man of Issachar,2 Tola son of Puah,3 the son of Dodo, rose to save4 Israel. He lived in Shamir,5 in the hill country of Ephraim.
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He leda Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.
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He was followed by Jair6 of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years.
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He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys.7 They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.b85
When Jair9 died, he was buried in Kamon.
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