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and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given to him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And Meonothai begot Ophrah: and Seraiah begot Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.

These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

And they found fat and good pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those that dwelt there previously were of Ham.

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them completely to this day, and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, since he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came a leader; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.

And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt-offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the slave of God had commanded.

Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot),

and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

And with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, six and thirty thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, that were able to go forth in the host for war.

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men.

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, look, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.