Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

Mizraim fathered the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah;

Nahshon fathered Salma, Salma fathered Boaz,

Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse;

and Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab, the second, Shimea, the third,

Abigail gave birth to Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.

Later, Hezron had relations with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore to him Segub.

Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

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

After the death of Hezron in Caleb-ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

Attai fathered Nathan, Nathan fathered Zabad,

Zabad fathered Ephlal, Ephlal fathered Obed,

Obed fathered Jehu, Jehu fathered Azariah,

Azariah fathered Helez, Helez fathered Eleasah,

Eleasah fathered Sismai, Sismai fathered Shallum,

Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

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

Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai.

The son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Bethzur.