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1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
2 Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared,
3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
6 And the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.
7 Also the sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshishah, Kittim and Dodanim.
8 The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
9 And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabtecha. Also, the sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.
10 And Cush begat Nimrod, who began to be mighty on the Earth.
11 And Mizraim begat Ludim and Anamim, Lehabim and Naphtuhim,
12 Pathrusim and Casluhim (of whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
13 Also Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn and Heth
14 and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite
15 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite
16 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.
17 The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.
18 Also, Arphaxad begat Shelah. And Shelah begat Eber.
19 Also, two sons were born to Eber. The name of one was Peleg. For in his days the Earth was divided. And his brother’s name was Joktan.
20 Then Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah
21 and Hadorama and Uzal and Diklah
22 and Ebal and Abimael and Sheba
23 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
27 Abram (who is Abraham),
28 and the sons of Abraham (Isaac and Ishmael),
29 these are their generations: the eldest son of Ishmael (Nebajoth) and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,
30 Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema,
31 Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
32 And Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, bore sons: Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.
33 And the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.
35 The sons of Esau were Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jaalam and Korah.
36 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna and Amalek.
37 The sons of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.
38 And the sons of Seir were Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer, and Dishan.
39 And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
40 The sons of Shobal were Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon were Ajah and Anah.
41 The son of Anah was Dishon. And the sons of Dishon were Hamran and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.
42 The sons of Ezer were Bilhan and Zaavan and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan were Uz and Aran.
43 And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before a king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela, the son of Beor (and the name of his city was Dinhabah).
44 Then Bela died and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
45 And after Jobab died, Husham, of the land of the Temanites, reigned in his place.
46 And after Husham died, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
47 So Hadad died. And Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
48 And Samlah died. And Saul of Rehoboth, by the river, reigned in his place.
49 And after Saul died, Baal-Hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.
50 And Baal-Hanan died. And Hadad reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pai. And his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
51 Hadad also died. And there were chiefs in Edom: Chief Timnah, Chief Aliah, Chief Jetheth,
52 Chief Aholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon,
53 Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar,
54 Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram. These were the Chiefs of Edom.
2 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun,
2 Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
3 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan and Shelah. These three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. But Er, the eldest son of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD. And he killed him.
4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.
5 The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
6 Also, the sons of Zerah were Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara. There were five in all.
7 And Achar was the son of Carmi. He troubled Israel, transgressing in the secluded thing.
8 Also, the son of Ethan was Azariah.
9 And the sons of Hezron, who were born to him, were Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.
10 And Ram begat Amminadab. And Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah.
11 And Nahshon begat Salma. And Salma begat Boaz.
12 And Boaz begat Obed. And Obed begat Ishai.
13 And Jesse begat his eldest son, Eliab, and Abinadab (the second) and Shimea (the third),
14 Nethanel (the fourth), Raddai (the fifth),
15 Ozem (the sixth) and David (the seventh),
16 whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah were Abishai and Joab and Asahel.
17 And Abigail bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Jether, an Ishmaelite.
18 And Caleb, the son of Hezron, begat Jerioth of Azubah, his wife. And these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.
19 And after Azubah died, Caleb took Ephrath to him, who bore him Hur.
20 And Hur begat Uri. And Uri begat Bezalel.
21 And afterward, Hezron came to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and took her when he was sixty years old. And she bore him Segub.
22 And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23 And Geshur, with Aram, took the towns of Jair from them, as well as Kenath and its towns, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
24 And after Hezron died at Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
25 And the sons of Jerahmeel, the eldest son of Hezron, were Ram (the eldest), then Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah.
26 Also, Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.
27 And the sons of Ram, the eldest son of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker.
28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur.
29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail. And she bore him Ahban and Molid.
30 Also, the sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim. But Seled died without children.
31 And the son of Appaim was Ishi. And the son of Ishi was Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan was Ahlai.
32 And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, were Jether and Jonathan. But Jether died without children.
33 And the sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
34 And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had a servant who was an Egyptian named Jarha.
35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife. And she bore him Attai.
36 And Attai begat Nathan and Nathan begat Zabad.
37 And Zabad begat Ephlal. And Ephlal begat Obed.
38 And Obed begat Jehu. And Jehu begat Azariah.
39 And Azariah begat Helez. And Helez begat Eleasah.
40 And Eleasah begat Sismai. And Sismai begat Shallum.
41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah. And Jekamiah begat Elishama.
42 Also, the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha (his eldest son), who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron.
43 And the sons of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.
44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam. And Rekem begat Shammai.
45 Also, the son of Shammai was Maon. And Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
46 And Ephah, a concubine of Caleb, bore Haran and Moza and Gazez. Haran also begat Gazez.
47 The sons of Jahdai were Regem and Jotham and Geshan and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph.
48 Caleb’s concubine, Maachah, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
49 She also bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheva, the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Caleb’s daughter.
50 These were the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the eldest son of Ephrathah, were Shobal, the father of Kirjath Jearim,
51 Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph, the father of Beth Gader.
52 And Shobal, the father of Kirjath Jearim, had sons. And he was the overseer of half of Manuhoth.
53 And the families of Kirjath Jearim were the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites. From them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites,
54 the sons of Salma of Bethlehem and the Netophathites, the crowns of the House of Joab and half the Manahethites and the Zorites
55 and the families of the scribes dwelling at Jabez, the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites (who are the Kenites, who came from Hammath, the father of the House of Rechab).
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