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; these three were his sons by Bathshua, the Canaanite woman. And Er, Judah's oldest son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and he put him to death.  

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  And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.  

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  The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.  

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  And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.  

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  And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.  

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  And the son of Ethan: Azariah.  

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  And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.  

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  And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;  

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  And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,  

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  And Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse,  

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  And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,  

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  Nethanel, 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 Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.  

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  And Abigail was the mother of 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, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.  

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  And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur.  

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  And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel.  

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  And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.  

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  And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.  

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  And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.  

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  And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.  

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  And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and 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 oldest son 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 Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.  

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  And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons.  

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  And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: 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 came to his end without sons.  

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

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  Now Sheshan had no sons, but only 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 a wife; and she had Attai by him.  

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  And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,  

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  And Zabad was the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal was the father of Obed,  

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  And Obed was the father of Jehu, and Jehu was the father of Azariah,  

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  And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,  

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  And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum,  

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  And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.  

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  And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron.  

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

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  And Shema was the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of 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 servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.  

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

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  Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,  

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  And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.  

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  The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,  

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

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  And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.  

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  And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.  

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  The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.  

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  And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.  

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