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¹ These are the sonnes of Israel: Ruben, Simeon, Leui, Iuda, Isachar, and Zabulon.² Dan, Ioseph, Beniamin, Nephthali, Gad, and Aser.³ The sonnes of Iuda: Er, Onan, and Sela: These three were borne vnto him of Bath Sua ye Chanaanitesse. And Er the eldest sonne of Iuda was euil in the sight of the Lorde, and he slue him.⁴ And Thamar his daughter in lawe bare him Pharez, and Zara: and so all the sonnes of Iuda were fiue.⁵ The sonnes of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.⁶ The sonnes of Zara: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Chalchol, and Dara: which were fiue in all.⁷ And the sonnes of Charmi, Achan, that troubled Israel, transgressing in the thing that was dampned.⁸ The sonnes of Ethan: Azaria.⁹ The sonnes also of Hezron that were borne vnto him: Ierameel, Ram, and Chelubai.¹⁰ And Ram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Naasson a lorde of the children of Iuda.¹¹ And Naasson begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz.¹² Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Isai.¹³ And Isai begat his eldest sonne Eliab, and Aminadab the second, and Simaa the third,¹⁴ Nathanael the fourth, and Radai the fifth,¹⁵ Ozem the sixt, and Dauid the seuenth:¹⁶ Whose sisters were Zeruia and Abigail. The sonnes of Zeruia: Abisai, Ioab, and Azael, three.¹⁷ And Abigail bare Amaza, the father of which Amaza, was Iether an Ismaelite.

¹⁸ And Caleb the sonne of Hezron begat Asuba, of his wyfe Asuba, and Ierioth, whose sonnes are these: Iaser, Sobab, and Ardon.¹⁹ And when Asuba was dead, Caleb toke Euphrata, which bare him Hur.²⁰ And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.²¹ Afterward came Hezron to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, and toke her when he was threescore yeres olde: and she bare him Segub.²² And Segub begat Iair, which had three and twentie cities in the lande of Gilead.²³ And he ouercame Gessur and Aram the townes of Iair, from them [which dwelt in them] and Kenath and the townes therof, euen threescore townes: All these were the sonnes of Machir the father of Gilead.²⁴ And after that Hezron was dead at Caleb in Euphrata, Abia Esroms wyfe bare him Ashur the father of Thekoa.²⁵ And the sonnes of Ierahmeel the eldest sonne of Hezron, were: Ran the eldest, Buna, Oren, Ozem, and Ahia.²⁶ And Ierahmeel had yet another wyfe named Atara, which was the mother of Onam.²⁷ And the sonnes of Ram the eldest sonne of Ierahmeel, were: Maaz, Iamin, and Ekar.²⁸ The sonnes of Onam were: Sammai, and Iada. The sonnes of Sammai: Nadab, and Abisur.²⁹ And the wyfe of Abisur was called Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.³⁰ The sonnes of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim. And Seled dyed without children.³¹ The sonne of Appaim, Iesi: And the sonne of Iesi, Sesan: And the sonne of Sesan, Ahlai.³² And the sonnes of Iada the brother of Samai, Iether & Ionathan: And Iether dyed without children.³³ The sonnes of Ionatham: Peleth, & Zaza. These were the sonnes of Ierahmeel.³⁴ Sesan had no sonnes, but daughters: And Sesan had a seruaunt that was an Egyptian, named Iarha:³⁵ To whom he gaue his daughter to wyfe, and she bare him Athai.³⁶ And Athai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad.³⁷ And Zabad begat Aphlal, and Aphlal begat Obed.³⁸ Obed begat Iehu, and Iehu begat Azaria.³⁹ Azaria begat Helez, and Helez begat Elasa.⁴⁰ Elasa begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Sallum.⁴¹ Sallum begat Iecamia, Iecamia begat Elisamah.⁴² The sonnes of Caleb the brother of Ierahmeel: Mesa his eldest sonne, which was the father of Ziph: and the sonnes of Maresa the father of Hebron.⁴³ The sonnes of Hebron: Corah, and Thapuah, Rekem, and Sama.⁴⁴ Sama begat Raham the father of Ierkoam, and Rekem begat Sammai.⁴⁵ The sonne of Sammai was Maon: And Maon was the father of Bethzur.⁴⁶ And Epha a concubine of Calebs, bare Haran, and Mosa, and Gazez: Haran begat Gazez.⁴⁷ The sonnes of Iahdai, were: Regem, Iotham, Gesan, Phelet, Epha, & Saaph.⁴⁸ And Maacha was Calebs concubine, of whom he begat Seber and Thirhana:⁴⁹ And she bare also Saaph the father of Madmanna, and Seua the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea: And Achsa was Calebs daughter.⁵⁰ These were the sonnes of Caleb the sonne of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephrata: Sabal the father of Kiriath Iarim,⁵¹ Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.⁵² And Sobal the father of Kiriath Iarim had sonnes, and he sawe the halfe of the countrey of the mansions.⁵³ The kinredes of Kiriath Iarim are these: The Iethrites, the Puthites, the Sumathites, & the Misrahethites: And of them came the Zarathites, and the Esthaulites.⁵⁴ The sonnes of Salma: Bethlehem, and Netophathi, the glory of the house of Ioab, and halfe the countrey of the Manahethites, the Zaraites.⁵⁵ The kinredes of the wryters dwelt at Iabes, the Thirathites, the Simeathites, the Suchathites, which are the Kenites that came of Hemath the father of the house of Rechab.