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¹ These [are] sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.³ Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, firstborn of Judah, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and He puts him to death.⁴ And his daughter-in-law Tamar has borne Perez and Zerah to him. All the sons of Judah [are] five.⁵ Sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.⁶ And sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five.⁷ And sons of Carmi: Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing.⁸ And sons of Ethan: Azariah.⁹ And sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.¹⁰ And Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the sons 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 firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,¹⁴ Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,¹⁶ and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El—three.¹⁷ And Abigail has borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa [is] Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸ And Caleb son of Hezron has begotten Azubah, Isshah, and Jerioth; and these [are] her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.¹⁹ And Azubah dies, and Caleb takes Ephrath to himself, and she bears Hur to him.²⁰ And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel.²¹ And afterward Hezron has gone in to a daughter of Machir father of Gilead, and he has taken her, and he [is] a son of sixty years, and she bears Segub to him.²² And Segub begot Jair, and he has twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead,²³ and he takes Geshur and Aram, the small villages of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its small towns, sixty cities—all these [belonged to] the sons of Machir father of Gilead.²⁴ And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, then the wife of Hezron, Abijah, even bears to him Asshur, father of Tekoa.²⁵ And sons of Jerahmeel, firstborn of Hezron, are: the firstborn Ram, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.²⁶ And Jerahmeel has another wife, and her name [is] Atarah, she [is] mother of Onam.²⁷ And sons of Ram, firstborn of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.²⁸ And sons of Onam are Shammai and Jada. And sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.²⁹ And the name of the wife of Abishur [is] Abihail, and she bears Ahban and Molid to him.³⁰ And sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled dies without sons.³¹ And sons of Appaim: Ishi. And sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.³² And sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether dies without sons.³³ And sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were sons of Jerahmeel.³⁴ And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters, and Sheshan has a servant, an Egyptian, and his name [is] Jarha,³⁵ and Sheshan gives his daughter to his servant Jarha for a wife, and she bears Attai to him;³⁶ and Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,³⁷ and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,³⁸ and Obed begot Jehu,³⁹ and Jehu begot Azariah, and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah,⁴⁰ and Eleasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum,⁴¹ and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.⁴² And sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, he [is] father of Ziph; and sons of Mareshah: Abi-Hebron.⁴³ And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.⁴⁴ And Shema begot Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begot Shammai.⁴⁵ And a son of Shammai [is] Maon, and Maon [is] father of Beth-Zur.⁴⁶ And Ephah concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.⁴⁷ And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.⁴⁸ The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bore Sheber and Tirhanah;⁴⁹ and she bears Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb [is] Achsa.⁵⁰ These were sons of Caleb son of Hur, firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim,⁵¹ Salma father of Beth-Lehem, Hareph father of Beth-Gader.⁵² And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;⁵³ and the families of Kirjath-Jearim: the Ithrite, and the Puhite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite. The Zorathite and the Eshtaolite went out from these.⁵⁴ Sons of Salma: Beth-Lehem, and the Netophathite, Atroth, Beth-Joab, and half of the Menuhothite, the Zorite;⁵⁵ and the families of the scribes, the inhabitants of Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Suchathites. They [are] the Kenites, those coming of Hammath father of the house of Rechab.