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: [which] three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.  

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  And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [were] five.  

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  The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.  

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

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  And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.  

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  And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.  

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  The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.  

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  And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;  

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  And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,  

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  And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,  

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  And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,  

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  Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,  

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  Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:  

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  Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.  

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  And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmeelite.  

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  And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.  

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  And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.  

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  And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.  

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  And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.  

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  And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.  

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  And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, [even] threescore cities. All these [belonged to] the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.  

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  And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.  

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  And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, [and] Ahijah.  

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  Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the mother of Onam.  

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  And the sons of Ram the firstborn 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 the wife of Abishur [was] Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.  

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  And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.  

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  And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.  

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  And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.  

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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 daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha.  

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  And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.  

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  And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,  

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  And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,  

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  And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,  

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  And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,  

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  And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,  

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  And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.  

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

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  And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.  

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  And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.  

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  And the son of Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Bethzur.  

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  And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat 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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  Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.  

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  She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsah.  

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  These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim,  

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  Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.  

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  And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, [and] half of the Manahethites.  

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  And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.  

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  The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.  

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  And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites. These [are] the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.  

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