1These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah — these three were born to him by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he put him to death.
4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
5The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
6And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara — five of them in all.
7And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed treachery with the devoted thing.
8And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.
9And the sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.
10And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, chief of the sons of Judah.
11And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.
12And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.
13And Jesse fathered his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
14Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.
16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai and Joab and Asahel — three.
17And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18And Caleb son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.
19And Azubah died, and Caleb took for himself Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.
20And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.
21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.
22And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23But Geshur and Aram took from them the villages of Jair, along with Kenath and its daughter-towns, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
24And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
25And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were: Ram the firstborn, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem, Ahijah.
26And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
27And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were: Maaz and Jamin and Eker.
28And the sons of Onam were: Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
29And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
30And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim. And Seled died with no sons.
31The sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
32The sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died without sons.
33The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
34Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha.
35So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as a wife, and she bore him Attai.
36Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad,
37and Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed,
38and Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah,
39and Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah,
40and Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum,
41and Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.
42The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
43And the sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.
44And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai.
45And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
46And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.
47And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
48Caleb’s concubine Maacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
49She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
50These were the sons of Caleb. The son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
51Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
52And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
53And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
54The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
55And the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
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