The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur and Shobal.

And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

And Penuel the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah; these were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari; these were the sons of Naarah.

And the sons of Helah: Zereth,  ¹Izhar, and Ethnan.

And Koz begot Anub and Zobebah and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

And Jabez was held in more honor than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with pain.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that You would richly bless me and  ¹enlarge my border, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would so keep me from evil that it would not grieve me! And God caused what he had requested to come to pass.

And Chelub the brother of Shuah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

And Eshton begot Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash; these were the men of Recah.

And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the  ¹son of Othniel: Hathath.

And Meonothai begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab the father of  ¹Geharashim, for they were craftsmen.

And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the  ¹son of Elah:  ²Kenaz.

And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asareel.

And the  ¹sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and she conceived and bore Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor and Heber the father of Soco and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.

And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.

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 with fine linen at Beth-ashbea

And Jokim and the men of Cozeba and Joash and Saraph, who ruled over Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. (But the records are ancient.)

These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gedarah; they dwelt there with the king for his work.

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

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

And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son;

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

And they dwelt at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

And at Bilhah and at Ezem and at Tolad

And at Bethuel and at Hormah and at Ziklag

And at Beth-marcaboth and at Hazar-susim and at Beth-biri and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.

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

As well as all their villages which were around these cities, as far as Baal. These were their dwelling places and their genealogical enrollment.

And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah the son of Amaziah

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

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

And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah—

These mentioned by name were leaders in their families; and their fathers' houses increased greatly.

And they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

And they found  ¹rich and good pasture and a spacious and quiet and peaceful land, for they who had formerly dwelt there were of Ham.

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah, and struck their tents and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly, as they are to this day; and they have dwelt in place of them; for there was pasture there for their flocks.

And some of them from among the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having at their head Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi;

And they struck down the rest of the Amalekites who had escaped; and they have dwelt there to this day.

And the sons of  ¹Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but because he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but he was not to be enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright,

For Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him was the leader, but the birthright was Joseph's)—

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

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

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

Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser the king of Assyria carried away captive; he was the leader of the Reubenites.

And his brothers by their families, in the genealogical enrollment of their generations, were: Jeiel the chief and Zechariah

And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;

And he dwelt on the east as far as the entrance to the wilderness from the river Euphrates; for their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

And in the days of Saul they waged war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout the east side of Gilead.

And the children of Gad dwelt opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah.

Joel was the head and Shapham the next, then Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

And their brothers according to their fathers' houses were Michael and Meshullam and Sheba and Jorai and Jacan and Zia and Eber, seven.

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:

Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, was the head of their fathers' house.

And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan and in its towns and in all the pasture lands of Sharon as far as their limits.

All these were enrolled in genealogies in the days of Jotham the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the king of Israel.

The children of Reuben and the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh were among the valiant men, men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow and were skillful in war—forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty ready for war.

And they waged war with the Hagarites and Jetur and Naphish and Nodab;

And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, as well as all who were with them; for they  ¹cried out to God in the battle, and He was entreated for them because they trusted in Him.

And they took their livestock: their fifty thousand camels, and two hundred fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand donkeys, as well as one hundred thousand people.

For many fell down slain, for the war was of God. And they dwelt in their place until the captivity.

And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan as far as Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon; they were many.

And these were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

But they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and went as harlots after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul the king of Assyria and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser the king of Assyria; and He carried them away, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river Gozan, where they are to this day.

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

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

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

Eleazar begot Phinehas; Phinehas begot Abishua,

And Abishua begot Bukki, and Bukki begot Uzzi,

And Uzzi begot Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begot Meraioth;

Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,

And Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Ahimaaz,

And Ahimaaz begot Azariah, and Azariah begot Johanan,

And Johanan begot Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem);

And Azariah begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,

And Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Shallum,

And Shallum begot Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begot Azariah,

And Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak,

And Jehozadak went into captivity when Jehovah carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

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

And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of Levi according to their fathers:

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

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

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

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

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

And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

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

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

And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn  ¹Joel and Abijah.

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

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

And these are they whom David set over the  ¹service of song in the house of Jehovah after the Ark was at rest.

And they ministered before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting with singing until Solomon built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they attended to their service according to their order.

And these are they who attended and their sons: Of the sons of the Kohathites:  ¹Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

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

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

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

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

The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel;

And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand: Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

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

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

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

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

And their brothers the sons of Merari were on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

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

The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

And their brothers the Levites were given to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

And Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense for all the work of the Holy of Holies and in order to make expiation for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

And these are their dwelling places according to their encampments, within their borders. To the sons of Aaron, to the family of the Kohathites (for to them did the lot come):

And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah and its pasture lands surrounding it;

But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

And to the children of Aaron they gave the  ¹city of refuge, Hebron; and Libnah and its pasture lands, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its pasture lands,

And Hilen and its pasture lands, Debir and its pasture lands,

And Ashan and its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh and its pasture lands;

And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Geba and its pasture lands, and Alemeth and its pasture lands, and Anathoth and its pasture lands. All their cities were thirteen cities, according to their families.

And to the rest of the children of Kohath were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, half of Manasseh, ten cities.

And to the children of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

To the children of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

And the children of Israel gave the cities and their pasture lands to the Levites.

And they gave by lot those cities which were mentioned by name out of the tribe of the children of Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin.

And some of the families of the children of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

And they gave them the city of refuge Shechem and its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its pasture lands,

And Jokmeam and its pasture lands, and Beth-horon and its pasture lands,

And Aijalon and its pasture lands, and Gath-rimmon and its pasture lands;

And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its pasture lands, and Bileam and its pasture lands, for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.

To the children of Gershom were given out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its pasture lands, and Ashtaroth and its pasture lands;

And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its pasture lands, Daberath and its pasture lands,

And Ramoth and its pasture lands, and Anem and its pasture lands;

And out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its pasture lands, and Abdon and its pasture lands,

And Hukok and its pasture lands, and Rehob and its pasture lands;

And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its pasture lands, and Hammon and its pasture lands, and Kiriathaim and its pasture lands.

To the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono and its pasture lands, and Tabor and its pasture lands;

And on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its pasture lands, and Jahzah and its pasture lands,

And Kedemoth and its pasture lands, and Mephaath and its pasture lands;

And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its pasture lands, and Mahanaim and its pasture lands,

And Heshbon and its pasture lands, and Jazer and its pasture lands.