Jacob’s 12 sons
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📚These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.Judah’s descendants
3 📚The sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah. These three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he put him to death. 4 📚And Tamar, his daughter-in-law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
5 📚The sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. 6 📚And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them in all. 7 📚And the sons of Carmi: Achar 📖, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing. 8 And the son of Ethan: Azariah.
9 📚And the sons of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai 📖. 10 📚And Ram 📖 begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon, leader of the children of Judah; 11 📚and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma 📖 begot Boaz, 12 📚and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse. 13 📚And Jesse begot his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third, 14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, 15 📚Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; 16 📚their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai and Joab and Asahel, three. 17 📚And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begot children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; her sons are these: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon. 19 📚And when Azubah died, Caleb took Ephrath for himself, who bore him Hur. 20 📚And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel 📖.
21 📚And afterwards Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. 22 📚And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 23 📚And he took Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Jair 📖, from them, with Kenath, and its towns, sixty cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead. 24 📚And after Hezron died in Caleb-Ephratah, Abiah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashur, the father 📖 of Tekoa.
25 And the sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah. 26 Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. 27 And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz and Jamin and Eker. 28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur. 29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.
2:1-2 Gen 35:23-26. In the following genealogies Zebulun and Dan are omitted. Judah is put first though he was the fourth son of Israel.⚜
30 And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim. But Seled died without children. 31 📚And the son of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan, and the child of Sheshan, Ahlai. 32 And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children. 33 And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel 📖. 34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha. 35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as his wife, and she bore him Attai. 36 📚And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad, 37 and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed, 38 and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah, 39 and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah, 40 and Eleasah begot Sisamai, and Sisamai begot Shallum, 41 and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.
42 📚Now the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah, the father of Hebron. 43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema. 44 And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkoam; and Rekem begot Shammai. 45 📚And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. 46 📚And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez. 47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem and Jotham and Gesham and Pelet and Ephah and Shaaph. 48 📚Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 📚She also bore Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
50 📚These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah: Shobal, the father of Kirjath-Jearim, 51 📚Salma, the father of Bethlehem, Hareph, the father of Beth-Gader. 52 📚And Shobal, the father of Kirjath-Jearim, had sons: Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites. 53 📚And the families of Kirjath-Jearim: the Ithrites and the Puhites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites. From them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaulites. 54 📚The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites. 55 📚And the families of the scribes 📖 who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites 📖 who came from Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab 📖.