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Sons of Issachar

Now the sons of Issachar were

Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four in all.

The sons of Tola were

Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel. They were heads of their father’s house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

The son of Uzzi was

Izrahiah,

and the sons of Izrahiah were

Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Ishiah, five chiefs in all. With them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were thirty-six thousand troops of war, battle-ready, for they had many wives and sons.

Now their brothers from all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, in all eighty-seven thousand registered by genealogy.

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