Commentary for I Chronicles 5:7
וְאֶחָיו֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔יו בְּהִתְיַחֵ֖שׂ לְתֹלְדוֹתָ֑ם הָרֹ֥אשׁ יְעִיאֵ֖ל וּזְכַרְיָֽהוּ׃
And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief Jeiel, and Zechariah,
Rashi on I Chronicles
tracing their genealogy to their generations; the heads were Jeiel and Zechariah The meaning is: I traced only part of the genealogy of Reuben, but the main part of his genealogy is in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. Jeiel and Zechariah were the heads, through whom their genealogy was completed.
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