These [are] the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, (2:1)

Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher (2:2)

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 (2:3)

And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah [were] five (2:4)

The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul (2:5)

And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all (2:6)

And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed (2:7)

And the sons of Ethan; Azariah (2:8)

The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai (2:9)

And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; (2:10)

And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, (2:11)

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse (2:12)

And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third, (2:13)

Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, (2:14)

Ozem the sixth, David the seventh: (2:15)

Whose sisters [were] Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three (2:16)

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmeelite (2:17)

And Caleb the son of Hezron begat [children] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth: her sons [are] these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon (2:18)

And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur (2:19)

And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel (2:20)

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 (2:21)

And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead (2:22)

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 (2:23)

And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa (2:24)

And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, [and] Ahijah (2:25)

Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name [was] Atarah; she [was] the mother of Onam (2:26)

And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker (2:27)

And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur (2:28)

And the name of the wife of Abishur [was] Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid (2:29)

And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children (2:30)

And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai (2:31)

And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children (2:32)

And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel (2:33)

Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name [was] Jarha (2:34)

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai (2:35)

And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, (2:36)

And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, (2:37)

And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, (2:38)

And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, (2:39)

And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum, (2:40)

And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama (2:41)

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 (2:42)

And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema (2:43)

And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai (2:44)

And the son of Shammai [was] Maon: and Maon [was] the father of Bethzur (2:45)

And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez (2:46)

And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph (2:47)

Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah (2:48)

She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb [was] Achsa (2:49)

These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim, (2:50)

Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader (2:51)

And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, [and] half of the Manahethites (2:52)

And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites (2:53)

The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites (2:54)

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 (2:55)

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