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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Reaiah son of Shobal was the father of Jahath, and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Naarah bore to him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the descendants of Naarah. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The sons of Helah were Zereth, Zohar, Ethnan, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8and Koz, who was the father of Anub and Zobebah and of the clans of Aharhel son of Harum. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Chelub the brother of Shuhah was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Eshton was the father of Beth-rapha, of Paseah, and of Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These were the men of Recah. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The descendants of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah and the clans of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea, |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.) |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23These were the potters who lived at Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the service of the king. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The descendants of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The sons of Shaul: Shallum, Mibsam, and Mishma. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26The sons of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns— |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record: |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah (son of Seraiah, son of Asiel), |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37and Ziza son of Shiphi (son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah). |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38These men listed by name were the leaders of their clans. Their families increased greatly, |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day. |
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