The Sons of Israel
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah — three born to him from Bath-shua the Canaanite. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of the LORD, and he put him to death.
And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah: five.
The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara — five of them in all.
And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the devoted things.
And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.
And the sons of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah.
And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.
And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse.
And Jesse fathered his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel — three.
And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
And Azubah died; and Caleb took himself Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.
And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead — and he took her when he was sixty years old — and she bore him Segub.
And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
And Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its daughter-towns — sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
And after the death of Hezron, in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, the wife of Hezron, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
And the sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were: the firstborn Ram, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.
And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were: Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
And the sons of Onam were: Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.
And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.
And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; and Seled died without sons.
And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without sons.
And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, and his name was Jarha.
And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as a wife; and she bore him Attai.
And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.
And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.
And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah.
And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah.
And Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum.
And Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.
And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn — he was the father of Ziph — and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai.
And the son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.
And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
The concubine of Caleb, Maacah, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
And she bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,
Salma, the father of Bethlehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-gader.
And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrite, and the Puthite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite; from these went out the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathite, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathite, the Zorite.
And the families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. They are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.