Beginning

1 ^1-4 These are the earliest generations of mankind:^[a] Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

^5-9 The sons of Japheth^[b] were: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.

The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Canaan, and Put.

The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, and Sabteca.

The sons of Raama were Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰ Another of the sons of Cush was Nimrod, who became a great hero.

^11-12 The clans named after the sons of Mizraim were: the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, the Pathrusim, the Caphtorim, and the Casluhim (the ancestors of the Philistines).

^13-16 Among Canaan’s sons were: Sidon (his firstborn) and Heth.

Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.

¹⁷ The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.

¹⁸ Arpachshad’s son was Shelah, and Shelah’s son was Eber.

¹⁹ Eber had two sons: Peleg (which means “Divided,” for it was during his lifetime that the people of the earth were divided into different language groups) and Joktan.

^20-23 The sons of Joktan: Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.

^24-27 So the son^[c] of Shem was Arpachshad, the son of Arpachshad was Shelah, the son of Shelah was Eber, the son of Eber was Peleg, the son of Peleg was Reu, the son of Reu was Serug, the son of Serug was Nahor, the son of Nahor was Terah, the son of Terah was Abram (later known as Abraham).

^28-31 Abraham’s sons were Isaac and Ishmael.

The sons of Ishmael: Nebaioth (the oldest), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

³² Abraham also had sons by his concubine Keturah: Zimram, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

Jokshan’s sons were Sheba and Dedan.

³³ The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were the descendants of Abraham by his concubine Keturah.

³⁴ Abraham’s son Isaac had two sons, Esau and Israel.

³⁵ The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

³⁶ The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.

³⁷ The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

^38-39 The sons of Esau^[d] also included Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; and Esau’s daughter was named Timna. Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam.

⁴⁰ The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. Zibeon’s sons were Aiah and Anah.

⁴¹ Anah’s son was Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.

⁴² The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. Dishan’s sons were Uz and Aran.

⁴³ Here is a list of the names of the kings of Edom who reigned before the kingdom of Israel began:

Bela (the son of Beor), who lived in the city of Dinhabah.

⁴⁴ When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah became the new king.

⁴⁵ When Jobab died, Husham from the country of the Temanites became the king.

⁴⁶ When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad—the one who destroyed the army of Midian in the fields of Moab—became king and ruled from the city of Avith.

⁴⁷ When Hadad died, Samlah from the city of Masrekah came to the throne.

⁴⁸ When Samlah died, Shaul from the river town of Rehoboth became the new king.

⁴⁹ When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.

⁵⁰ When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king and ruled from the city of Pai (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab).

^51-54 At the time of Hadad’s death, the kings of Edom were: Chief Timna, Chief Aliah, Chief Jetheth, Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram.

2 ^1-2 The sons of Israel were: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.

³ Judah had three sons by Bathshua, a girl from Canaan: Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the oldest son, Er, was so wicked that the Lord killed him.

⁴ Then Er’s widow, Tamar, and her father-in-law, Judah, became the parents of twin sons, Perez and Zerah. So Judah had five sons.

⁵ The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁶ The sons of Zerah were: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara.

⁷ (Achan, the son of Carmi, was the man who robbed God and was such a troublemaker for his nation.)

⁸ Ethan’s son was Azariah.

⁹ The sons of Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

¹⁰ Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of Israel.

¹¹ Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz.

¹² Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.

¹³ Jesse’s first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea, ¹⁴ his fourth was Nethanel, his fifth was Raddai, ¹⁵ his sixth was Ozem, and his seventh was David. ¹⁶ He also had two girls (by the same wife) named Zeruiah and Abigail.

Zeruiah’s sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

¹⁷ Abigail, whose husband was Jether from the land of Ishmael, had a son named Amasa.

¹⁸ Caleb (the son of Hezron) had two wives, Azubah and Jerioth. These are the children of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹ After Azubah’s death, Caleb married Ephrath, who presented him with a son, Hur.

²⁰ Hur’s son was Uri, and Uri’s son was Bezalel.

²¹ Hezron married Machir’s daughter at the age of sixty, and she presented him with a son, Segub. (Machir was also the father of Gilead.)

²² Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled^[e] twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ²³ But Geshur and Aram wrested these cities from him and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.

²⁴ Soon after his father Hezron’s death, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father’s widow, and she gave birth to Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵ These are the sons of Jerahmeel (the oldest son of Hezron): Ram (the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

²⁶ Jerahmeel’s second wife Atarah was the mother of Onam.

²⁷ The sons of Ram: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

²⁸ Onam’s sons were Shammai and Jada. Shammai’s sons were Nadab and Abishur.

²⁹ The sons of Abishur and his wife Abihail were Ahban and Molid.

³⁰ Nadab’s sons were Seled and Appaim. Seled died without children, ³¹ but Appaim had a son named Ishi; Ishi’s son was Sheshan; and Sheshan’s son was Ahlai.

³² Shammai’s brother Jada had two sons, Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children, ³³ but Jonathan had two sons named Peleth and Zaza.

^34-35 Sheshan^[f] had no sons, although he had several daughters. He gave one of his daughters to be the wife of Jarha, his Egyptian servant. And they had a son whom they named Attai.

³⁶ Attai’s son was Nathan; Nathan’s son was Zabad; ³⁷ Zabad’s son was Ephlal; Ephlal’s son was Obed; ³⁸ Obed’s son was Jehu; Jehu’s son was Azariah; ³⁹ Azariah’s son was Helez; Helez’s son was Eleasah; ⁴⁰ Eleasah’s son was Sismai; Sismai’s son was Shallum; ⁴¹ Shallum’s son was Jekamiah; Jekamiah’s son was Elishama.

⁴² The oldest son of Caleb (Jerahmeel’s brother) was Mesha; he was the father of Ziph, who was father of Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.

⁴³ The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema.

⁴⁴ Shema was the father of Raham, who was the father of Jorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai.

⁴⁵ Shammai’s son was Maon, the father of Bethzur.

⁴⁶ Caleb’s concubine Ephah bore him Haran, Moza, and Gazez; Haran had a son named Gazez.

⁴⁷ The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

^48-49 Another of Caleb’s concubines, Maacah, bore him Sheber, Tirhanah, Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), and Sheva (the father of Machbenah and of Gibea). Caleb also had a daughter, whose name was Achsah.

⁵⁰ The sons of Hur (who was the oldest son of Caleb^[g] and Ephrathah) were Shobal (the father of Kiriath-jearim), ⁵¹ Salma (the father of Bethlehem), and Hareph (the father of Beth-gader).

⁵² Shobal’s sons included Kiriath-jearim and Haroeh, the ancestor of half of the Menuhoth tribe.

⁵³ The families of Kiriath-jearim were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites (from whom descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites).

⁵⁴ The descendants of Salma were his son Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites; ⁵⁵ they also included the families of the writers living at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. All these are Kenites who descended from Hammath, the founder of the family of Rechab.