Chapter 2

  These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,  

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

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  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.  

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  And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.  

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  The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul.  

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

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  And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.  

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  And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.  

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

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

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  and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz,  

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  and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;  

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

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  Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,  

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  Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;  

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  and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.  

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  And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.  

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  And Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah [his] wife, and by Jerioth: her sons are these: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.  

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  And Azubah died, and Caleb took him Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.  

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  And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel.  

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  And afterwards Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.  

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  And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;  

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  and Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were sons of Machir the father of Gilead.  

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  And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.  

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

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  And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.  

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  And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.  

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  And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.  

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  And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.  

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  And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died without sons.  

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  And the sons of Appaim: Jishi; and the sons of Jishi: Sheshan; and the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.  

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  And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without sons.  

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

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  And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters; and Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha;  

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  and Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.  

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  And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,  

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  and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,  

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  and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah,  

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  and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Elasah,  

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  and Elasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum,  

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  and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.  

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  And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.  

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

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  And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem begot Shammai;  

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  and the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.  

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  And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.  

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  And the sons of Jehdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.  

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  Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah;  

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  and she bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.  

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  These are the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah: Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,  

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  Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.  

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  And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, Hazi-Hammenuhoth.  

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  And the families of Kirjath-jearim were the Jithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zoreathites and the Eshtaolites.  

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  The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites. Atroth-Beth-Joab, and the Hazi-Hammana-hethites, the Zorites;  

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  and the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Tireathites, the Shimeathites, the Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.  

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