The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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

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

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

During Saul’s reign they waged war against the Hagrites, who were defeated by their power. And they lived in their tents throughout the region east of Gilead.

And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:

And their brethren according to their fathers' houses were Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jaachan, 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:

And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.

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

The children of Reuben and the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men who carried shield and sword, drawing the bow and skilful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, able to go forth to war.

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

Many of the Hagrites were killed because it was God’s battle. And they lived there in the Hagrites’ place until the exile.

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 Jishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

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

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

The sons of Levi were Gershom, Kohath and Merari.

And, the sons of Kohath, were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

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

The sons of Elkanah were Amasai and Ahimoth.

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

The sons of Samuel were Joel the firstborn, and Abijah the second.

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

They were ministering with song before the tabernacle of the tent of assembly until Solomon built the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their order with respect to their duty.

These are those who served with their sons: From the sons of the Kohathites were Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

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

And their brethren the Levites were given for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

But, Aaron and his sons, were to make perfume upon the altar of ascending-sacrifice, and upon the altar of incense, according to all the service of the holy of holies, - even for putting a propitiatory-covering over Israel, according go all that, Moses, the servant of God, commanded.

These were the descendants of Aaron: His son Eleazar, his son Phinehas, his son Abishua,

These were the areas where Aaron's descendants lived: The following belonged to the Kohathite clan, for they received the first allotment:

They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.

(But the city's land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

The descendants of Aaron were also allotted as cities of refuge Hebron, Libnah and its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa and its pasturelands,

and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba, with her pasture lands, and Allemeth, with her pasture lands, - and Anathoth, with her pasture lands; - all their cities, were thirteen cities, throughout their families.

And to the children of Kohath that remained were given by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and of the tribe of Dan and of the half tribe, half Manasseh, ten cities.

To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and [the other half of] Manasseh in Bashan.

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 they gave by lot 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, these cities which were mentioned by name.

Some of the families of the Kohathites were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:

They were allotted as cities of refuge Shechem and its pasturelands (in the hill country of Ephraim), Gezer and its pasturelands,

From half the tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its pasturelands, and Bileam and its pasturelands were given to the rest of the families of the Kohathites.

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

From the tribe of Issachar were allotted Kedesh with its surrounding suburbs, Daberath with its surrounding suburbs,

and Ramoth with its open lands, and Anem with its open lands were given.

From of the tribe of Asher were allotted Mashal with its surrounding suburbs, Abdon with its surrounding suburbs,

From the tribe of Naphtali were allotted Kedesh in Galilee with its surrounding suburbs, Hammon with its surrounding suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its surrounding suburbs.

To the children of Merari that remained were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono and its suburbs, and Tabor and its suburbs;

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

From the tribe of Gad were allotted Ramoth in Gilead with its surrounding suburbs, Mahanaim with its surrounding suburbs,

And the sons of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Jashub and Shimron, four.

And, the sons of Tola, were Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, chiefs of their ancestral house, pertaining to Tola, heroes of valour, in their generations, - their number, in the days of David, twenty-two thousand and six hundred.

The son of Uzzi: Izrachiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah. All five were leaders.

And with them by their generations, according to their fathers' houses, were military bands for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

and, their brethren, of all the families of Issachar, heroes of great valour, were eighty-seven thousand, when they had, all, registered themselves.

The sons of Benjamin were three: Bela and Becher and Jediael.

And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valour; and they were registered by their genealogy twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth; all these were the sons of Becher.

And they were registered by their genealogy by their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand two hundred.

The son of Jediael was Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, seventeen thousand two hundred, fit for service for war.

The Shuppites and Huppites were descendants of Ir; the Hushites were descendants of Aher.

The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

And Maachah 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.

And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

And the sons of Shemidah were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

Rephah was also his descendant, as were Resheph, Telah, Tahan,

And their possession and dwelling-places were Bethel and its dependent villages, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer and its dependent villages, and Shechem and its dependent villages as far as to Gazah and its dependent villages.

On the border of Manasseh's territory were Beth-Shean and its surrounding towns, Taanach and its surrounding towns, Megiddo and its surrounding towns, and Dor and its surrounding towns. The descendants of Joseph, Israel's son, lived here.

The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

And, the sons of Japhlet, Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These, were the sons of Japhlet.

The sons of Shemer were Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of fathers' houses, choice men, mighty of valour, chiefs of the princes. And their number according to their genealogy, registered as fit for service for war, was twenty-six thousand men.

And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

And these are the sons of Ehud (these were the chief fathers of the inhabitants of Geba; and they carried them away to Manahath;

And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

And by his wife Hodesh, were Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

and Jeuz, and Shobia, and Mirmah; these were his sons, chief fathers.

The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

and Beriah, and Shema, who were chief fathers of the inhabitants of Ajalon; they drove away the inhabitants of Gath.

and Michael, and Jishpah, and Joha were the sons of Beriah.

and Jishmerai, and Jizliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.

and Jiphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.

and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.

These were the chief fathers, according to their generations, principal men; these dwelt in Jerusalem.

And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.

And, the sons of Micah, were Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bochru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan; all these were sons of Azel.