7:1 The sons of Is'sachar: Tola, Pu'ah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
7:2 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephai'ah, Je'ri-el, Jah'mai, Ibsam, and Shem'uel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.
7:3 The sons of Uzzi: Izrahi'ah. And the sons of Izrahi'ah: Michael, Obadi'ah, Jo'el, and Isshi'ah, five, all of them chief men;
7:4 and along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were units of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.
7:5 Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Is'sachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.
7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jedi'a-el, three.
7:7 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uz'ziel, Jer'imoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers' houses, mighty warriors; and their enrollment by genealogies was twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.
7:8 The sons of Becher: Zemi'rah, Jo'ash, Elie'zer, Eli-o-e'nai, Omri, Jer'emoth, Abi'jah, An'athoth, and Al'emeth. All these were the sons of Becher;
7:9 and their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred.
7:10 The sons of Jedi'a-el: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Je'ush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chena'anah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahish'ahar.
7:11 All these were the sons of Jedi'a-el according to the heads of their fathers' houses, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand and two hundred, ready for service in war.
7:12 And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the sons of Aher.
7:13 The sons of Naph'tali: Jah'zi-el, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the offspring of Bilhah.
7:14 The sons of Manas'seh: As'ri-el, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
7:15 And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Ma'acah. And the name of the second was Zeloph'ehad; and Zeloph'ehad had daughters.
7:16 And Ma'acah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
7:17 The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manas'seh.
7:18 And his sister Hammo'lecheth bore Ishhod, Abi-e'zer, and Mahlah.
7:19 The sons of Shemi'da were Ahi'an, Shechem, Likhi, and Ani'am.
7:20 The sons of E'phraim: Shuthe'lah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Ele-a'dah his son, Tahath his son,
7:21 Zabad his son, Shuthe'lah his son, and Ezer and E'le-ad, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land slew, because they came down to raid their cattle.
7:22 And E'phraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
7:23 And E'phraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son; and he called his name Beri'ah, because evil had befallen his house.
7:24 His daughter was She'erah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-hor'on, and Uz'zen-she'erah.
7:25 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,
7:26 Ladan his son, Ammi'hud his son, Eli'shama his son,
7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.
7:28 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Na'aran, and westward Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;
7:29 also along the borders of the Manas'sites, Beth-she'an and its towns, Ta'anach and its towns, Megid'do and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beri'ah, and their sister Serah.
7:31 The sons of Beri'ah: Heber and Mal'chi-el, who was the father of Bir'zaith.
7:32 Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shu'a.
7:33 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.
7:34 The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehub'bah, and Aram.
7:35 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
7:36 The sons of Zophah: Su'ah, Har'nepher, Shu'al, Beri, Imrah,
7:37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Be-e'ra.
7:38 The sons of Jether: Jephun'neh, Pispa, and Ara.
7:39 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Han'niel, and Rizi'a.
7:40 All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, approved, mighty warriors, chief of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was twenty-six thousand men.
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