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1 Of
the sons of
Issachar: Tola,
Puah, Jashub, and
Shimron, four.
2 The
sons of Tola:
Uzzi, Rephaiah,
Jeriel, Jahmai,
Ibsam, and Shemuel,
heads of
their fathers’ houses,
of Tola; mighty
men of valor
in their
generations. Their
number in the
days of David
was twenty-two thousand
six hundred.
3 The
son of Uzzi:
Izrahiah. The sons
of Izrahiah:
Michael, Obadiah,
Joel, and Isshiah,
five; all of
them chief men.
4 With
them, by their
generations, after
their fathers’ houses,
were bands of
the army for
war, thirty-six thousand;
for they had
many wives and
sons.
5 Their brothers
among all the
families of
Issachar, mighty
men of valor,
listed in all
by genealogy, were
eighty-seven thousand.
6 The sons
of Benjamin: Bela,
Becher, and
Jediael, three.
7 The
sons of Bela:
Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel,
Jerimoth, and Iri,
five; heads
of fathers’ houses,
mighty men of
valor; and they
were listed by
genealogy twenty-two thousand
thirty-four.
8 The
sons of Becher:
Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai,
Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah,
Anathoth, and
Alemeth. All these
were the sons
of Becher.
9 They
were listed by
genealogy, after their
generations, heads
of their fathers’ houses,
mighty men of
valor, twenty thousand
two hundred.
10 The
son of Jediael:
Bilhan. The sons
of Bilhan: Jeush,
Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah,
Zethan, Tarshish,
and Ahishahar.
11 All
these were sons
of Jediael, according
to the heads
of their fathers’ households,
mighty men of
valor, seventeen thousand
two hundred, who
were able to
go out in
the army for
war.
12 So were
Shuppim, Huppim,
the sons of
Ir, Hushim, and
the sons of Aher.
13 The
sons of Naphtali:
Jahziel, Guni,
Jezer, Shallum,
and the sons
of Bilhah.
14 The
sons of Manasseh:
Asriel, whom his concubine
the Aramitess bore. She
bore Machir the
father of Gilead.
15 Machir
took a wife of
Huppim and Shuppim,
whose sister’s name
was Maacah. The
name of the
second was
Zelophehad; and
Zelophehad had
daughters.
16 Maacah
the wife of Machir
bore a son,
and she named
him Peresh. The
name of his brother
was Sheresh; and
his sons were Ulam
and Rakem.
17 The
sons of Ulam: Bedan. These
were the sons
of Gilead the
son of Machir,
the son of
Manasseh.
18 His sister
Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer,
and Mahlah.
19 The
sons of Shemida
were Ahian, Shechem,
Likhi, and Aniam.
20 The
sons of Ephraim:
Shuthelah, Bered
his son, Tahath
his son, Eleadah
his son, Tahath
his son,
21 Zabad
his son, Shuthelah
his son, Ezer,
and Elead, whom
the men of
Gath who were
born in the land
killed, because
they came down
to take away
their livestock.
22 Ephraim
their father mourned many
days, and
his brothers came to
comfort him.
23 He
went in to
his wife, and she
conceived and bore
a son, and
he named him
Beriah,
because there was
trouble with his
house.
24 His
daughter was
Sheerah, who
built Beth Horon the
lower and the
upper, and Uzzen
Sheerah.
25 Rephah
was his son,
Resheph his son,
Telah his son,
Tahan his son,
26 Ladan
his son, Ammihud
his son, Elishama
his son,
27 Nun
his son, and
Joshua his son.
28 Their possessions and
settlements were
Bethel and its
towns, and
eastward Naaran,
and westward
Gezer with its
towns; Shechem
also and its
towns, to Azzah
and its towns;
29 and
by the borders
of the children
of Manasseh, Beth Shean
and its towns,
Taanach and its
towns, Megiddo and
its towns, and
Dor and its
towns. The
children of Joseph
the son of
Israel lived
in these.
30 The
sons of Asher:
Imnah, Ishvah,
Ishvi, and Beriah.
Serah was
their sister.
31 The
sons of Beriah:
Heber and Malchiel,
who was the
father of Birzaith.
32 Heber
became the father
of Japhlet, Shomer,
Hotham, and Shua
their sister.
33 The
sons of Japhlet:
Pasach, Bimhal,
and Ashvath. These
are the children
of Japhlet.
34 The
sons of Shemer:
Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah,
and Aram.
35 The
sons of Helem
his brother: Zophah,
Imna, Shelesh, and
Amal.
36 The
sons of Zophah:
Suah, Harnepher,
Shual, Beri, Imrah,
37 Bezer,
Hod, Shamma,
Shilshah, Ithran,
and Beera.
38 The
sons of Jether:
Jephunneh, Pispa,
and Ara.
39 The
sons of Ulla: Arah,
Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All
these were the
children of Asher,
heads of
the fathers’ houses,
choice and mighty
men of valor,
chief of the
princes. The
number of them
listed by
genealogy for
service in war
was twenty-six thousand
men.