| 2.1 |
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, |
| 2.2 |
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. |
| 2.3 |
The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him. |
| 2.4 |
Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. |
| 2.5 |
The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. |
| 2.6 |
The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all. |
| 2.7 |
The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. |
| 2.8 |
The sons of Ethan: Azariah. |
| 2.9 |
The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. |
| 2.10 |
Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; |
| 2.11 |
and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz, |
| 2.12 |
and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse; |
| 2.13 |
and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, |
| 2.14 |
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, |
| 2.15 |
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; |
| 2.16 |
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. |
| 2.17 |
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. |
| 2.18 |
Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. |
| 2.19 |
Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur. |
| 2.20 |
Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel. |
| 2.21 |
Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. |
| 2.22 |
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. |
| 2.23 |
Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. |
| 2.24 |
After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. |
| 2.25 |
The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah. |
| 2.26 |
Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. |
| 2.27 |
The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. |
| 2.28 |
The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur. |
| 2.29 |
The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid. |
| 2.30 |
The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children. |
| 2.31 |
The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. |
| 2.32 |
The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. |
| 2.33 |
The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. |
| 2.34 |
Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. |
| 2.35 |
Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai. |
| 2.36 |
Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad, |
| 2.37 |
and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed, |
| 2.38 |
and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah, |
| 2.39 |
and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah, |
| 2.40 |
and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum, |
| 2.41 |
and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama. |
| 2.42 |
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. |
| 2.43 |
The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. |
| 2.44 |
Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai. |
| 2.45 |
The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur. |
| 2.46 |
Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez. |
| 2.47 |
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. |
| 2.48 |
Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. |
| 2.49 |
She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. |
| 2.50 |
These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim, |
| 2.51 |
Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader. |
| 2.52 |
Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. |
| 2.53 |
The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. |
| 2.54 |
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. |
| 2.55 |
The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. |