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These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun; |
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Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher. |
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The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death. |
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And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five. |
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The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. |
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And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them. |
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And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing. |
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And the son of Ethan: Azariah. |
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And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai. |
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And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah; |
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And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz, |
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And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse, |
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And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third, |
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Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth, |
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Ozem, the sixth, David, the seventh; |
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And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel. |
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And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. |
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And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon. |
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And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur. |
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And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel. |
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And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him. |
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And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead. |
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And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. |
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And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa. |
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And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah. |
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And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam. |
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And the sons of Ram, the oldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker. |
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And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. |
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And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him. |
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And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons. |
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And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. |
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And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons. |
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And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. |
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Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha. |
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And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him. |
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And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad, |
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And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed, |
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And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah, |
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And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah, |
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And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum, |
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And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama. |
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And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron. |
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And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. |
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And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai. |
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And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. |
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And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez. |
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And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. |
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Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah, |
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And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb. |
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The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, |
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Salma, the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader. |
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And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites. |
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And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. |
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The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. |
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And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab. |