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And his allowance, a continual allowance, was given to him from the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

And Sheshan gave his daughter to his servant Jarha for a wife, and she bore him Attai.

And Meonothai fathered Ophrah. And Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of the Valley of the Craftsmen; for they were craftsmen.

These were the potters, and those who lived among plants and hedges. They lived there with the king for his work.

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

And they found pasture, fertile and good, for the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those of Ham who lived there were of old.

And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but since he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; and thegenealogy is not to be counted according tothe birthright;

for Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him was the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph's);

And they were helped against them. And the Hagarites were given into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them, because they trusted in Him.

For many fell down slain, because the war was of God. And they lived in their places until the exile.

Also their brothers, the Levites, were appointed for every 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 servant of God had commanded.

And these are their dwelling places by their camps, within their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs.

And to the sons of Gershom for their families: Out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

To the sons of Merari by the lot, for their families: out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

And they gave to them for cities of refuge: Shechem in Mount Ephraim and its open lands; and Gezer and its open lands;

And out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its open lands; and Bileam and its open lands for the family of the rest of the sons of Kohath.

And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' house, were bands of soldiers for war, thirty six thousand; for they multiplied wives and sons.

all these are sons of Jediael, even heads of their fathers, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to war for battle.

And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim; and the name of his sister was Maachah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters.