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¹ The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Pu'ah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.² The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephai'ah, Je'ri-el, Jah'mai, Ibsam, and Shem'uel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.³ The sons of Uzzi: Izrahi'ah. And the sons of Izrahi'ah: Michael, Obadi'ah, Jo'el, and Isshi'ah, five, all of them chief men;⁴ and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.⁵ Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.⁶ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.⁷ The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uz'ziel, Jer'imoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.⁸ The sons of Becher: Zemi'rah, Jo'ash, Elie'zer, Eli-o-e'nai, Omri, Jer'emoth, Abi'jah, An'athoth, and Al'emeth. All these were the sons of Becher;⁹ and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.¹⁰ The sons of Jedi'a-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Je'ush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chena'anah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahish'ahar.¹¹ All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.¹² And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.¹³ The sons of Naph'tali: Jah'zi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.¹⁴ The sons of Manas'seh: As'ri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.¹⁵ And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Ma'acah. And the name of the second was Zeloph'ehad; and Zeloph'ehad had daughters.¹⁶ And Ma'acah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.¹⁷ The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manas'seh.¹⁸ And his sister Hammo'lecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-e'zer, and Mahlah.¹⁹ The sons of Shemi'da were Ahi'an, Shechem, Likhi, and Ani'am.

²⁰ The sons of E'phraim: Shuthe'lah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-a'dah his son, Tahath his son,²¹ Zabad his son, Shuthe'lah his son, and Ezer and E'le-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.²² And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.²³ And E'phraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beri'ah, because evil had befallen his house.²⁴ His daughter was She'erah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-hor'on, and Uz'zen-she'erah.²⁵ Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,²⁶ Ladan his son, Ammi'hud his son, Eli'shama his son,²⁷ Nun his son, Joshua his son.²⁸ Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Na'aran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;²⁹ also along the borders of the Manas'sites, Beth-she'an and its towns, Ta'anach and its towns, Megid'do and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.³⁰ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.³¹ The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith.³² Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a.³³ The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.³⁴ The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehub'bah, and Aram.³⁵ The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.³⁶ The sons of Zophah: Su'ah, Har'nepher, Shu'al, Beri, Imrah,³⁷ Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-e'ra.³⁸ The sons of Jether: Jephun'neh, Pispa, and Ara.³⁹ The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a.⁴⁰ All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.