And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.

And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

And Bela will die, and Jobab son of Zerah of Borah will reign in his stead.

And Jobab will die, and Husham from the land of the Temanites will reign in his stead.

And Husham will die, and Hadad son of Bedad will reign in his stead: he struck Midian in the field of Moab: and the name of his city, Avith.

And Hadad will die, and Samlah of Mazrekah will reign in his stead.

And Samlah will die, and Saul from Rehoboth of the river will reign in his stead.

And Saul will die, and Baal Hanan son of Achbor will reign in his stead.

And Baal-Hanan will die, and Hadad will reign in his stead: and the name of his city Pai; and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.

And Tamar his daughter-in-law hath borne to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah are five.

Carmi’s son: Achar, who brought trouble on Israel when he was unfaithful by taking the things set apart for destruction.

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

And Azubah dieth, and Caleb taketh to him Ephrath, and she beareth to him Hur.

And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

And, Segub, begat Jair, - who came to have twenty-three cities, in the land of Gilead;

And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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

And another wife will be to Jerahmeel, and her name Atamh; she the mother of Onam.

And the name of the wife of Abishur is Abihail, and she beareth to him Ahban and Molid.

And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons.

And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether came to his end without sons.

And there will be no sons to Sheshan, but daughters. And to Sheehan a servant, an Egyptian, and his name Jarha.

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.

And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez.

Maacah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah.

She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb [was] Acsah.

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

And these are the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jizreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

The third to Absalom son of Maachah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth Adonijah son of Haggith:

The fifth, Shephatiah to Abital the sixth, Ithrean to Eglah his wife.

six were born to him in Hebron. And there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;

These were all David’s sons, with their sister Tamar, in addition to the sons by his concubines.

whose son was Joram: and his son was Ahaziah, and Joash was son to him.

And Ahaz was his son, and Hezekiah was son to him, and Manasseh was his son.

And Amon was his son, and Josiah was son to him.

The descendants of Jeconiah, who was taken captive to Babylon, included his son Shealtiel,

And Penuel, father of Gedeor; And Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the eldest son of Ephrathah father to Bethlehem.

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

and Naarah beareth to him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari: these are sons of Naarah.

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.

Ezrah’s sons: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

These were the sons of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah; Mered had married her. His Judean wife gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.

The descendants of Judah's son Shelah were Er, who fathered Lecah, Laadah (who fathered Mareshah and the families who belonged to the guild of linen workers at Beth-ashbea),

and Jokim, the men of Cozeba, Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. These are ancient words (genealogical records).

These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

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

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

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

these people, enumerated by name, were leaders in their respective families, and their clans grew to be very abundant.

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

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

And 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.

And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright is to Joseph.

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

His relatives, listed by families when the genealogy was enrolled according to their generations, included the chief, Jeiel, Zechariah,

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

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.

And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, and they will fall by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents upon all the face from the sunrising to Gilead.

And the sons of Gad lived near 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.

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

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the [surrounding] pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.

The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.

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.

And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.

Now the sons (people) of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land; their settlements spread from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.

And these are heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, men mighty in valour, men of name, heads to the house of their fathers.

But they acted treacherously against the God of their fathers and played the prostitute with 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 king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

The LORD sent Jehozadak, Judah, and Jerusalem into exile, using Nebuchadnezzar to do it.

The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

To Gershom, pertained Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

These are the men David put in charge of the music in the Lord’s temple after the ark came to rest there.

And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

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

There was also his brother Asaph, who stood to Heman's right. Asaph had been fathered by Berechiah, who had been fathered by Shimea,

To Heman's left were their relatives who were Merari's sons: Ethan, who had been fathered by Kishi, who had been fathered by Abdi, who had been fathered by Malluch,

And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it;

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

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

and, out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs: all their cities, thirteen cities, according to 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.

And to the sons of Gershom throughout 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.

Unto the sons 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 to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

And to the families of the children of Kohath who had the cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim,

and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs,