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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 unto him of Bath-shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and He slew him. ⁴ And 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 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. ⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing. ⁸ And the sons of Ethan: Azariah. ⁹ The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.¹⁰ And Ram begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;¹¹ and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz;¹² and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;¹³ and Jesse begot his first-born 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. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.¹⁷ And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸ And Caleb the son of Hezron begot children of Azubah his wife--and of Jerioth--and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.¹⁹ And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.²⁰ And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel. ²¹ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead; whom he took to wife when he was threescore years old; and she bore him Segub.²² And Segub begot Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead. ²³ And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.²⁴ And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrath, then Abiah Hezron's wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. ²⁵ And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.²⁶ And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. ²⁷ And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.²⁸ And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.²⁹ And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.³⁰ And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.³¹ And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.³² And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. ³³ And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.³⁴ Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.³⁵ So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bore him Attai.³⁶ And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad;³⁷ and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed;³⁸ and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah;³⁹ and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah;⁴⁰ and Eleasah begot Sisamai, and Sisamai begot Shallum;⁴¹ and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama. ⁴² And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.⁴³ And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.⁴⁴ And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begot Shammai.⁴⁵ And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.⁴⁶ And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez. ⁴⁷ And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.⁴⁸ Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.⁴⁹ And [the wife of] Shaaph the father of Madmannah bore Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. ⁵⁰ These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Ephrath: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim;⁵¹ Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.⁵² And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, and half of the Menuhoth.⁵³ And 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: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.⁵⁵ And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.