And they found fat and good pasture, and a land widely extended and quiet and fertile, for they who had dwelt there formerly were 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 stead; for there was pasture there for their flocks.

And five hundred men of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to mount Seir, having at their head Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Jishi,

and they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped; and they dwelt there unto this day.

And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,

for Judah prevailed among his brethren, and of him was the prince, but the birthright was Joseph's),

the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Enoch And Phallu, Hezron And Carmi.

And his brethren by their families, in the genealogical register of their generations, were: the chief, Jeiel, 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 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, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout the east side of Gilead.

And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan, as far as Salcah:

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

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

And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasture-grounds of Sharon, as far as their 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 made war with 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: their camels fifty thousand, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand human souls.

For there fell down many slain, for the war was of God. And they dwelt in their stead 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 Jishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.

And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring 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 king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser 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, unto this day.

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

And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Jizhar, 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.

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 (he is it that exercised the priesthood 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 Hilkijah, and Hilkijah begot Azariah,

and Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak,

and Jehozadak went away, 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 Jizhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

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

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

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

And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

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

And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni and Abijah.

And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah after that the ark was in rest.

And they ministered before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting with singing, until Solomon had built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they attended to their office according to their order.

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

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

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.

And Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement 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,

And these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments, within their borders. For the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathites, for theirs was the lot;

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

but the fields of the city, and the hamlets thereof gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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

and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,

and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh and its 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 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 to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

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.

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

they gave the city of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its suburbs,

and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its suburbs,

and Ajalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs;

and out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

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;

and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its suburbs, Dobrath and its suburbs,

and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;

and out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs,

and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs;

and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its 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 of the Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,

and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs;

and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,

and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jaazer and its suburbs.

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

And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers' houses, of Tola, valiant men of might in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

And the sons of Uzzi: Jizrahiah; and the sons of Jizrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, and Jishijah, five; all of them chief men.

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 among all the families of Issachar valiant men of might, registered by genealogy, in all eighty-seven thousand.

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

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.

And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

And Shuppim, and Huppim, the children of Ir. Hushim: the sons of Aher.

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

And Machir took a wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah. And the name of the second son was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters.

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 his sister Moleketh bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.