2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Is'sachar, Zeb'ulun,
2:2 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naph'tali, Gad, and Asher.
2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah; these three Bath-shu'a the Canaanitess bore to him. Now Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him.
2:4 His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
2:6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.
2:7 The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the matter of the devoted thing;
2:8 and Ethan's son was Azari'ah.
2:9 The sons of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerah'meel, Ram, and Chelu'bai.
2:10 Ram was the father of Ammin'adab, and Ammin'adab was the father of Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.
2:11 Nahshon was the father of Salma, Salma of Bo'az,
2:12 Bo'az of Obed, Obed of Jesse.
2:13 Jesse was the father of Eli'ab his first-born, Abin'adab the second, Shim'ea the third,
2:14 Nethan'el the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
2:16 and their sisters were Zeru'iah and Ab'igail. The sons of Zeru'iah: Abi'shai, Jo'ab, and As'ahel, three.
2:17 Ab'igail bore Ama'sa, and the father of Ama'sa was Jether the Ish'maelite.
2:18 Caleb the son of Hezron had children by his wife Azu'bah, and by Jer'ioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
2:19 When Azu'bah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
2:20 Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bez'alel.
2:21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub;
2:22 and Segub was the father of Ja'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
2:23 But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-ja'ir, Kenath and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.
2:24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Eph'rathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Teko'a.
2:25 The sons of Jerah'meel, the first-born of Hezron: Ram, his first-born, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahi'jah.
2:26 Jerah'meel also had another wife, whose name was At'arah; she was the mother of Onam.
2:27 The sons of Ram, the first-born of Jerah'meel: Ma'az, Jamin, and Eker.
2:28 The sons of Onam: Sham'mai and Jada. The sons of Sham'mai: Nadab and Abi'shur.
2:29 The name of Abi'shur's wife was Ab'ihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
2:30 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Ap'pa-im; and Seled died childless.
2:31 The sons of Ap'pa-im: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
2:32 The sons of Jada, Sham'mai's brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless.
2:33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerah'meel.
2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters; but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, whose name was Jarha.
2:35 So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave; and she bore him Attai.
2:36 Attai was the father of Nathan and Nathan of Zabad.
2:37 Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal of Obed.
2:38 Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu of Azari'ah.
2:39 Azari'ah was the father of Helez, and Helez of Ele-a'sah.
2:40 Ele-a'sah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai of Shallum.
2:41 Shallum was the father of Jekami'ah, and Jekami'ah of Eli'shama.
2:42 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerah'meel: Mare'shah his first-born, who was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mare'shah: Hebron.
2:43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tap'puah, Rekem, and Shema.
2:44 Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jor'ke-am; and Rekem was the father of Sham'mai.
2:45 The son of Sham'mai: Ma'on; and Ma'on was the father of Bethzur.
2:46 Ephah also, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.
2:47 The sons of Jah'dai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Sha'aph.
2:48 Ma'acah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tir'hanah.
2:49 She also bore Sha'aph the father of Madman'nah, Sheva the father of Machbe'nah and the father of Gib'e-a; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
2:50 These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the first-born of Eph'rathah: Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim,
2:51 Salma, the father of Bethelem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
2:52 Shobal the father of Kir'iath-je'arim had other sons: Haro'eh, half of the Menu'hoth.
2:53 And the families of Kir'iath-je'arim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shu'mathites, and the Mish'ra-ites; from these came the Zo'rathites and the Esh'taolites.
2:54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netoph'athites, At'roth-beth-jo'ab, and half of the Man'aha'thites, the Zorites.
2:55 The families also of the scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Ti'rathites, the Shim'e-athites, and the Su'cathites. These are the Ken'ites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
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