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The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.


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The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.


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The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.


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His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.


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The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.


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The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth.


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The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;


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and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.


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These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.


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The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;


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Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.


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The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.


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Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.


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They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,


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and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,


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and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,


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and at Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susim, and at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David.


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Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;


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and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.


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Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,


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and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,


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and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,


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and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah–


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these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.


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They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.


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They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.


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These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.


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Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.


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They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.


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The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.


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For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)


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the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.


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The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,


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Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,


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Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.


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His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,


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and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:


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and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead.


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In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gilead.


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The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:


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Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.


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Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.


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These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;


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Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses.


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They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.


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All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.


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The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.


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They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.


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They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.


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They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.


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For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.


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The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.


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These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.


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They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.


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The God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.


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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


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The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.


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The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


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Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua,


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and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi,


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and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth,


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Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,


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and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz,


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and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan,


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and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem),


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and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,


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and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shallum,


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and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah,


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and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak;


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Jehozadak went [into captivity], when Yahweh carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.


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The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.


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These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.


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The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.


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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ [houses].


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Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,


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Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.


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The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,


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Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,


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Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.


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The sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.


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As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,


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Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.


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The sons of Samuel: the firstborn [Joel], and the second Abijah.


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The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,


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Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.


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These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.


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They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.


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These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,


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the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,


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the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,


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the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,


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the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,


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the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.


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His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,


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the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,


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the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,


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the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,


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the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.


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On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,


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the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,