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