1These [are] sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

2Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

3Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, firstborn of Judah, is evil in the eyes of YHWH, and He puts him to death.

4And his daughter-in-law Tamar has borne Perez and Zerah to him. All the sons of Judah [are] five.

5Sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.

6And sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five.

7And sons of Carmi: Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing.

8And sons of Ethan: Azariah.

9And sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

10And Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah;

11and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz,

12and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;

13and Jesse begot his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

14Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,

16and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El—three.

17And Abigail has borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa [is] Jether the Ishmaelite.

18And Caleb son of Hezron has begotten Azubah, Isshah, and Jerioth; and these [are] her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

19And Azubah dies, and Caleb takes Ephrath to himself, and she bears Hur to him.

20And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel.

21And afterward Hezron has gone in to a daughter of Machir father of Gilead, and he has taken her, and he [is] a son of sixty years, and she bears Segub to him.

22And Segub begot Jair, and he has twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead,

23and he takes Geshur and Aram, the small villages of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its small towns, sixty cities—all these [belonged to] the sons of Machir father of Gilead.

24And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, then the wife of Hezron, Abijah, even bears to him Asshur, father of Tekoa.

25And sons of Jerahmeel, firstborn of Hezron, are: the firstborn Ram, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.

26And Jerahmeel has another wife, and her name [is] Atarah, she [is] mother of Onam.

27And sons of Ram, firstborn of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

28And sons of Onam are Shammai and Jada. And sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

29And the name of the wife of Abishur [is] Abihail, and she bears Ahban and Molid to him.

30And sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled dies without sons.

31And sons of Appaim: Ishi. And sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

32And sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether dies without sons.

33And sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were sons of Jerahmeel.

34And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters, and Sheshan has a servant, an Egyptian, and his name [is] Jarha,

35and Sheshan gives his daughter to his servant Jarha for a wife, and she bears Attai to him;

36and Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,

37and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,

38and Obed begot Jehu,

39and Jehu begot Azariah, and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah,

40and Eleasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum,

41and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.

42And sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his firstborn, he [is] father of Ziph; and sons of Mareshah: Abi-Hebron.

43And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

44And Shema begot Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begot Shammai.

45And a son of Shammai [is] Maon, and Maon [is] father of Beth-Zur.

46And Ephah concubine of Caleb bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.

47And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

48The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bore Sheber and Tirhanah;

49and she bears Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb [is] Achsa.

50These were sons of Caleb son of Hur, firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim,

51Salma father of Beth-Lehem, Hareph father of Beth-Gader.

52And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;

53and the families of Kirjath-Jearim: the Ithrite, and the Puhite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite. The Zorathite and the Eshtaolite went out from these.

54Sons of Salma: Beth-Lehem, and the Netophathite, Atroth, Beth-Joab, and half of the Menuhothite, the Zorite;

55and the families of the scribes, the inhabitants of Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Suchathites. They [are] the Kenites, those coming of Hammath father of the house of Rechab.