And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
She bare Miriam. It is difficult, as the verses stand at present, to see who is meant. The following re-adjustment of the text clears away the obscurity: 'These are the sons of Bithiah х Bityaah (H1332), daughter, i:e., worshipper, of Yahweh; Septuagint, Betthia], the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took, and she hare Miriam, etc., and his wife Jehudijah bare Jezreel,' etc.