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¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun,² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naph'tali, Gad, and Asher.³ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bath-shu'a the Canaanitess bore to him. Now Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him.⁴ His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.⁵ The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.⁶ The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.⁷ The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted thing;⁸ and Ethan's son was Azari'ah.⁹ The sons of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerah'meel, Ram, and Chelu'bai.¹⁰ Ram was the father of Ammin'adab, and Ammin'adab was the father of Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.¹¹ Nahshon was the father of Salma, Salma of Bo'az,¹² Bo'az of Obed, Obed of Jesse.¹³ Jesse was the father of Eli'ab his first-born, Abin'adab the second, Shim'ea the third,¹⁴ Nethan'el the fourth, Raddai the fifth,¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;¹⁶ and their sisters were Zeru'iah and Ab'igail. The sons of Zeru'iah: Abi'shai, Jo'ab, and As'ahel, three.¹⁷ Ab'igail bore Ama'sa, and the father of Ama'sa was Jether the Ish'maelite.

¹⁸ Caleb the son of Hezron had children by his wife Azu'bah, and by Jer'ioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.¹⁹ When Azu'bah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.²⁰ Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bez'alel.²¹ Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;²² and Segub was the father of Ja'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.²³ But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-ja'ir, Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.²⁴ After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Eph'rathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Teko'a.²⁵ The sons of Jerah'meel, the first-born of Hezron: Ram, his first-born, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahi'jah.²⁶ Jerah'meel also had another wife, whose name was At'arah; she was the mother of Onam.²⁷ The sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerah'meel: Ma'az, Jamin, and Eker.²⁸ The sons of Onam: Sham'mai and Jada. The sons of Sham'mai: Nadab and Abi'shur.²⁹ The name of Abi'shur's wife was Ab'ihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.³⁰ The sons of Nadab: Seled and Ap'pa-im; and Seled died childless.³¹ The sons of Ap'pa-im: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.³² The sons of Jada, Sham'mai's brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless.³³ The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerah'meel.³⁴ Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters; but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, whose name was Jarha.³⁵ So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.³⁶ Attai was the father of Nathan and Nathan of Zabad.³⁷ Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal of Obed.³⁸ Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu of Azari'ah.³⁹ Azari'ah was the father of Helez, and Helez of Ele-a'sah.⁴⁰ Ele-a'sah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai of Shallum.⁴¹ Shallum was the father of Jekami'ah, and Jekami'ah of Eli'shama.⁴² The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerah'meel: Mare'shah his first-born, who was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mare'shah: Hebron.⁴³ The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tap'puah, Rekem, and Shema.⁴⁴ Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jor'ke-am; and Rekem was the father of Sham'mai.⁴⁵ The son of Sham'mai: Ma'on; and Ma'on was the father of Bethzur.⁴⁶ Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.⁴⁷ The sons of Jah'dai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Sha'aph.⁴⁸ Ma'acah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tir'hanah.⁴⁹ She also bore Sha'aph the father of Madman'nah, Sheva the father of Machbe'nah and the father of Gib'e-a; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.⁵⁰ These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Eph'rathah: Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim,⁵¹ Salma, the father of Bethelem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.⁵² Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim had other sons: Haro'eh, half of the Menu'hoth.⁵³ And the families of Kir'iath-je'arim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shu'mathites, and the Mish'ra-ites; from these came the Zo'rathites and the Esh'taolites.⁵⁴ The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netoph'athites, At'roth-beth-jo'ab, and half of the Man'aha'thites, the Zorites.⁵⁵ The families also of the scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Ti'rathites, the Shim'e-athites, and the Su'cathites. These are the Ken'ites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.