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With the two pillers, one Sea and the bases, which Salomon had made for the house of the Lorde: the brasse of all these vessels was without weight.

Then all ye people both small and great, & the captaines of the armie arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraide of the Caldees.

Vnto Eber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his dayes was ye earth deuided: & his brothers name was Ioktan.

And Meonothai begate Ophrah. And Seraiah begate Ioab the father of the valley of craftesmen: for they were craftesmen.

These were potters, & dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his worke.

And they went to the entring in of Gedor, euen vnto the East side of the valley, to seeke pasture for their sheepe.

And they found fat pasture and good, and a wide land, both quiet and fruitfull: for they of Ham had dwelt there before.

And these described by name, came in the dayes of Hezekiah king of Iudah, & smote their tents, and the inhabitants that were found there, and destroyed them vtterly vnto this day, and dwelt in their roume, because there was pasture there for their sheepe.

The sonnes also of Reuben the eldest sonne of Israel (for he was the eldest, but had defiled his fathers bed, therefore his birthright was giuen vnto the sonnes of Ioseph the sonne of Israel, so that the genealogie is not rekoned after his birthright.

For Iudah preuailed aboue his brethren, and of him came the prince, but the birthright was Iosephs)

Also Eastwarde he inhabited vnto the entring in of the wildernes fro the riuer Perath for they had much cattel in the land of Gilead.

And they were holpen against them, and the Hagarims were deliuered into their hande, and all that were with them: for they cryed to God in the battel, and he heard them, because they trusted in him.

For many fel downe wounded, because the warre was of God. And they dwelt in their steads vntill the captiuitie.

And the children of the halfe tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, fro Baashan vnto Baal Hermon, and Senir, and vnto mount Hermon: for they increased.

And these be they whom Dauid set for to sing in the house of the Lord, after that the Arke had rest.

But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all that was to do in the most holy place, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the seruant of God had commaunded.

And these are the dwelling places of them throughout their townes and coastes, euen of the sonnes of Aaron for the familie of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs.

And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of Iudah for refuge, euen Hebron and Libna with their suburbes, and Iattir, and Eshtemoa with their suburbes,

And out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh, Aner and her suburbes, and Bileam and her suburbes, for the families of the remnant of the sonnes of Kohath.

And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many wiues and children.