abrupt introduction of Ḳoẓ is striking. Perhaps he has fallen from the list of the sons of Ḥelah and should be supplied, so 𝔗. He is thus restored at the end of v. 7 by Ki. (v. i.). Possibly his name was struck out from these lists intentionally, since Hakkoz appears as a post-exilic priestly family (24:10, Ezr. 2:61, Ne. 7:63) and the writer desired that the Judean Calebite or non-Levitical origin of this family might not appear. The identity of names, however, may be purely accidental (cf.