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¹Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

²Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,

³Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

⁴Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

⁵Sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

⁶And sons of Gomer: Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

⁷And sons of Javan: Elisha, and Tarshishah, Kittim, and Dodanim.

⁸Sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁹And sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecka. And sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the land.

¹¹And Mizraim begat the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

¹²and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim (from whom came out the Philistim), and the Caphtorim.

¹³And Canaan begat Zidon his first born, and Heth,

¹⁴and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

¹⁵and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

¹⁶and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

¹⁷Sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

¹⁸And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

¹⁹And to Eber have been born two sons, the name of the one is Peleg, for in his days hath the land been divided, and the name of his brother is Joktan.

²⁰And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

²¹and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

²²and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

²³and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these are sons of Joktan.

²⁴Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu,

²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah,

²⁷Abram -- he is Abraham.

²⁸Sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

²⁹These are their generations: first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adheel, and Mibsam,

³⁰Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

³¹Jetur, Naphish, and Kedema. These are sons of Ishmael.

³²And sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

³³And sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah; all these are sons of Keturah.

³⁴And Abraham begetteth Isaac. Sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

³⁵Sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

³⁶Sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

³⁷Sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

³⁸And sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.

³⁹And sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam, and sister of Lotan is Timna.

⁴⁰Sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And sons of Zideon: Aiah and Anah.

⁴¹The sons of Anah: Dishon. and sons of Dishon: Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

⁴²Sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zavan, Jakan. Sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

⁴³And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king of the sons of Israel: Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city is Dinhabah.

⁴⁴And Bela dieth, and reign in his stead doth Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrali;

⁴⁵and Jobab dieth, and reign in his stead doth Husham from the land of the Temanite;

⁴⁶and Husham dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadad, son of Bedad (who smiteth Midian in the field of Moab) and the name of his city is Avith;

⁴⁷and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah from Masrekah;

⁴⁸and Samlah dieth, and reign in his stead doth Shaul from Rehoboth of the River;

⁴⁹and Shaul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-Hanan son of Achbor;

⁵⁰and Baal-Hanan dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadad, and the name of his city is Pai, and the name of his wife is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab; Hadad also dieth.

⁵¹And chiefs of Edom are: chief Timnah, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

⁵²chief Aholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

⁵³chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

⁵⁴chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are chiefs of Edom.

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¹These are sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

²Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

³Sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, three have been born to him of a daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, first-born of Judah, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him to death.

⁴And Tamar his daughter-in-law hath borne to him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah are five.

⁵Sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.

⁶And sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five.

⁷And sons of Carmi: Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing.

⁸And sons of Ethan: Azariah.

⁹And sons of Hezron who were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

¹⁰And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah;

¹¹and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

¹²and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;

¹³and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

¹⁴Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

¹⁵Ozem the sixth, David the seventh,

¹⁶and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El -- three.

¹⁷And Abigail hath borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa is Jether the Ishmeelite.

¹⁸And Caleb son of Hezron hath begotten Azubah, Isshah, and Jerioth; and these are her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹And Azubah dieth, and Caleb taketh to him Ephrath, and she beareth to him Hur.

²⁰And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

²¹And afterwards hath Hezron gone in unto a daughter of Machir father of Gilead, and he hath taken her, and he is a son of sixty years, and she beareth to him Segub.

²²And Segub begat Jair, and he hath twenty and three cities in the land of Gilead,

²³and he taketh Geshur and Aram, the small villages of Jair, from them, with Kenath and its small towns, sixty cities -- all these belonged to the sons of Machir father of Gilead.

²⁴And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, then the wife of Hezron, Abijah, even beareth to him Asshur, father of Tekoa.

²⁵And sons of Jerahmeel, first-born of Hezron, are: the first-born Ram, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.

²⁶And Jerahmeel hath another wife, and her name is Atarah, she is mother of Onam.

²⁷And sons of Ram, first-born of Jerahmeel, are Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

²⁸And sons of Onam are Shammai and Jada. And sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

²⁹And the name of the wife of Abishur is Abihail, and she beareth to him Ahban and Molid.

³⁰And sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; and Seled dieth without sons.

³¹And sons of Appaim: Ishi. And sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

³²And sons of Jada, brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether dieth without sons.

³³And sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were sons of Jerahmeel.

³⁴And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters, and Sheshan hath a servant, an Egyptian, and his name is Jarha,

³⁵and Sheshan giveth his daughter to Jarha his servant for a wife, and she beareth to him Attai;

³⁶and Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,

³⁷and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,

³⁸and Obed begat Jehu,

³⁹and Jehu begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

⁴⁰and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum,

⁴¹and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

⁴²And sons of Caleb brother of Jerahmeel: Mesha his first-born, he is father of Ziph; and sons of Mareshah: Abi-Hebron.

⁴³And sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

⁴⁴And Shema begat Raham father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begat Shammai.

⁴⁵And a son of Shammai is Maon, and Maon is father of Beth-Zur.

⁴⁶And Ephah concubine of Caleb bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat Gazez.

⁴⁷And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸The concubine of Caleb, Maachah, bare Sheber and Tirhanah;

⁴⁹and she beareth Shaaph father of Madmannah, Sheva father of Machbenah, and father of Gibea; and a daughter of Caleb is Achsa.

⁵⁰These were sons of Caleb son of Hur, first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim,

⁵¹Salma father of Beth-Lehem, Hareph father of Beth-Gader.

⁵²And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;

⁵³and the families of Kirjath-Jearim: the Ithrite, and the Puhite, and the Shumathite, and the Mishraite: from these went out the Zareathite, and the Eshtaulite.

⁵⁴Sons of Salma: Beth-Lehem, and the Netophathite, Atroth, Beth-Joab, and half of the Menuhothite, the Zorite;

⁵⁵and the families of the scribes the inhabitants of Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Suchathites. They are the Kenites, those coming of Hammath father of the house of Rechab.

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¹And these were sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

²the third Absalom, son of Maachah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, son of Haggith;

³the fifth Shephatiah, of Abital; the sixth Ithream, of Eglah his wife.

⁴Six have been borne to him in Hebron, and he reigneth there seven years and six months, and thirty and three years he hath reigned in Jerusalem.

⁵And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon -- four, of Bath-Sheba daughter of Ammiel:

⁶also Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

⁷and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

⁸and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

⁹All are sons of David, apart from sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.

¹⁰And the son of Solomon is Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

¹¹Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

¹²Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

¹³Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

¹⁴Amon his son, Josiah his son.

¹⁵And sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

¹⁶And sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

¹⁷And sons of Jeconiah: Assir; Salathiel his son;

¹⁸also Malchiram and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

¹⁹And sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,

²⁰and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-Hesed, five.

²¹And sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jesaiah, sons of Rephaiah, sons of Arnan, sons of Obadiah, sons of Shechaniah.

²²And sons of Shechaniah: Shemaiah; and sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

²³And sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

²⁴And sons of Elioenai: Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.

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¹Sons of Judah: Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

²And Reaiah son of Shobal begat Jahath, and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad; these are families of the Zorathite.

³And these are of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister is Hazzelelponi,

⁴and Penuel is father of Gedor, and Ezer father of Hushah. These are sons of Hur, first-born of Ephratah, father of Beth-Lehem.

⁵And to Ashhur father of Tekoa were two wives, Helah and Naarah;

⁶and Naarah beareth to him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari: these are sons of Naarah.

⁷And sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.

⁸And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.

⁹And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ‘Because I have brought forth with grief.'

¹⁰And Jabez calleth to the God of Israel, saying, ‘If blessing Thou dost bless me, then Thou hast made great my border, and Thy hand hath been with me, and Thou hast kept me from evil -- not to grieve me;' and God bringeth in that which he asked.

¹¹And Chelub brother of Shuah begat Mehir; he is father of Eshton.

¹²And Eshton begat Beth-Rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah father of Ir-Nahash; these are men of Rechah.

¹³And sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and sons of Othniel: Hathath.

¹⁴And Meonothai begat Ophrah, and Seraiah begat Joab father of the valley of artificers, for they were artificers.

¹⁵And sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

¹⁶And sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.

¹⁷And sons of Ezra are Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she beareth Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah father of Eshtemoa.

¹⁸And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered father of Gedor, and Heber father of Socho, and Jekuthiel father of Zanoah. And these are sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took,

¹⁹and sons of the wife of Hodiah sister of Nahom: Abi-Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

²⁰And sons of Shimon are Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-Hanon, and Tilon; and sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-Zoheth.

²¹Sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er father of Lecah, and Laadah father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the service of fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;

²²and Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled over Moab and Jashubi-Lehem; and these things are ancient.

²³They are the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; with the king in his work they dwelt there.

²⁴Sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

²⁶And sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

²⁷And to Shimei are sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah.

²⁸And they dwell in Beer-Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shaul,

²⁹and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad,

³⁰and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag,

³¹and in Beth-Marcaboth, and in Hazar-Susim, and in Beth-Birei, and in Shaarim; these are their cities till the reigning of David.

³²And their villages are Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,

³³and all their villages that are round about these cities unto Baal; these are their dwellings, and they have their genealogy:

³⁴even Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah son of Amaziah,

³⁵and Joel, and Jehu son of Josibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,

³⁶and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

³⁷and Ziza son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah.

³⁸These who are coming in by name are princes in their families, and the house of their fathers have broken forth into a multitude;

³⁹and they go to the entrance of Gedor, unto the east of the valley, to seek pasture for their flock,

⁴⁰and they find pasture, fat and good, and the land broad of sides, and quiet, and safe, for of Ham are those dwelling there before.

⁴¹And these who are written by name come in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smite their tents, and the habitations that have been found there, and devote them to destruction unto this day, and dwell in their stead, because pasture for their flock is there.

⁴²And of them, of the sons of Simeon, there have gone to mount Seir, five hundred men, and Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi, at their head,

⁴³and they smite the remnant of those escaped of Amalek, and dwell there unto this day.

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¹As to sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel -- for he is the first-born, and on account of his profaning the couch of his father hath his birthright been given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, and he is not to be reckoned by genealogy for the birthright,

²for Judah hath been mighty over his brother, and for leader above him, and the birthright is to Joseph.

³Sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

⁴Sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

⁶Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur removed; he is prince of the Reubenite.

⁷And his brethren, by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, are heads: Jeiel, and Zechariah,

⁸and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel -- he is dwelling in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-Meon;

⁹and at the east he dwelt even unto the entering in of the wilderness, even from the river Phrat, for their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰And in the days of Saul they have made war with the Hagarites, who fall by their hand, and they dwell in their tents over all the face of the east of Gilead.

¹¹And the sons of Gad, over-against them have dwelt in the land of Bashan unto Salcah,

¹²Joel the head, and Shapham the second, and Jaanai and Shaphat in Bashan;

¹³and their brethren of the house of their fathers are Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

¹⁴These are sons of Abihail son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz;

¹⁵Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, is head of the house of their fathers;

¹⁶and they dwell in Gilead in Bashan, and in her small towns, and in all suburbs of Sharon, upon their outskirts;

¹⁷all of them reckoned themselves by genealogy in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸Sons of Reuben, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, of sons of valour, men bearing shield and sword, and treading bow, and taught in battle, are forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going out to the host.

¹⁹And they make war with the Hagarites, and Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab,

²⁰and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who are with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him.

²¹And they take captive their cattle, of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of human beings a hundred thousand;

²²for many have fallen pierced, for of God is the battle; and they dwell in their stead till the removal.

²³And the sons of the half of the tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land, from Bashan unto Baal-Hermon, and Senir, and mount Hermon, they have multiplied.

²⁴And these are heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, men mighty in valour, men of name, heads to the house of their fathers.

²⁵And they trespass against the God of their fathers, and go a-whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land whom God destroyed from their presence;

²⁶and stir up doth the God of Israel the spirit of Pul king of Asshur, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur, and he removeth them -- even the Reubenite, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh -- and bringeth them in to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan unto this day.

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¹Sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

³And sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

⁴Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,

⁵and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,

⁶and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

⁷Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

⁸and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

⁹and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

¹⁰and Johanan begat Azariah, him who acted as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem.

¹¹And Azariah begetteth Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

¹²and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

¹³and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

¹⁴and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak;

¹⁵and Jehozadak hath gone in Jehovah's removing Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

¹⁶Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁷And these are names of sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁸And sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

¹⁹Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are families of the Levite according to their fathers;

²⁰of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

²¹Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

²²Sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

²³Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

²⁵And sons of Elkanah; Amasai and Ahimoth.

²⁶Elkanah; sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

²⁸And sons of Samuel: the first-born Vashni, and the second Abijah.

²⁹Sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,

³⁰Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

³¹And these are they whom David stationed over the parts of the song of the house of Jehovah, from the resting of the ark,

³²and they are ministering before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, in song, till the building by Solomon of the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they stand according to their ordinance over their service.

³³And these are those standing, and their sons: of the sons of the Kohathite: Heman the singer, son of Joel, son of Shemuel,

³⁴son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,

³⁵son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai,

³⁶son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah,

³⁷son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah,

³⁸son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel.

³⁹And his brother Asaph, who is standing on his right -- Asaph, son of Berachiah, son of Shimea,

⁴⁰son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchiah,

⁴¹son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah,

⁴²son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,

⁴³son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.

⁴⁴And sons of Merari, their brethren, are on the left. Ethan son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,

⁴⁵son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah,

⁴⁶son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer,

⁴⁷son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

⁴⁸And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

⁴⁹And Aaron and his sons are making perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of the perfume, for all the work of the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses servant of God commanded.

⁵⁰And these are sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

⁵¹Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

⁵²Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

⁵³Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

⁵⁴And these are their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot;

⁵⁵and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its suburbs round about it;

⁵⁶and the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

⁵⁷And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,

⁵⁸and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,

⁵⁹and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs.

⁶⁰And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs. All their cities are thirteen cities, for their families.

⁶¹And to the sons of Kohath, those left of the family of the tribe, from the half of the tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, are ten cities.

⁶²And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

⁶³To the sons of Merari, for their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, twelve cities.

⁶⁴And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

⁶⁵And they give by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they call by name;

⁶⁶and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim;

⁶⁷and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs,

⁶⁸and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-Horan and its suburbs,

⁶⁹and Aijalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs;

⁷⁰and from the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, for the family of the sons of Kohath who are left.

⁷¹To the sons of Gershom from the family of the half of the tribe of Manasseh are Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs;

⁷²and from the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh and its suburbs, Daberath and its suburbs,

⁷³and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;

⁷⁴and from the tribe of Asher; Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs,

⁷⁵and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs;

⁷⁶and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs.

⁷⁷To the sons of Merari who are left, from the tribe of Zebulun, are Rimmon and its suburbs, Tabor and its suburbs;

⁷⁸and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,

⁷⁹and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs;

⁸⁰and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,

⁸¹and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jazer and its suburbs.