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¹Adam, Seth, Enosh,

²Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared,

³Enoch, Methushelah, Lemech,

⁴Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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

⁶-- And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.

⁷And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

⁸The sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.

⁹-- And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

¹⁰And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

¹¹-- And Mizraim begot the Ludim, and the Anamim, and the Lehabim, and the Naphtuhim,

¹²and the Pathrusim, and the Casluhim out of whom came the Philistines, and the Caphtorim.

¹³-- And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, 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.

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

¹⁸-- And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber.

¹⁹And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

²⁰And Joktan begot 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 were sons of Joktan.

²⁴Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

²⁵Eber, Peleg, Reu,

²⁶Serug, Nahor, Terah,

²⁷Abram: the same is Abraham.

²⁸The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

²⁹These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam;

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

³¹Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah: those are the sons of Ishmael.

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

³³And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Enoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah.

³⁴And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

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

³⁶-- The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

³⁷The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

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

³⁹-- And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam. And Lotan's sister, Timna.

⁴⁰-- The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. -- And the sons of Zibeon: Ajah and Anah.

⁴¹-- The sons of Anah: Dishon. -- And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Jithran, and Cheran.

⁴²-- The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Jaakan. -- The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

⁴³And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned a king over the children of Israel: -- Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

⁴⁴And Bela died; and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

⁴⁵And Jobab died; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

⁴⁶And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

⁴⁷And Hadad died; and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

⁴⁸And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.

⁴⁹And Saul died; and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

⁵⁰And Baal-hanan died; and Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

⁵¹And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

⁵²chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

⁵³chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

⁵⁴chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom.

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

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

³The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born to him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him.

⁴And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

⁵The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul.

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

⁷And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed thing.

⁸And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.

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

¹⁰And Ram begot Amminadab; and Amminadab begot Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

¹¹and Nahshon begot Salma, and Salma begot Boaz,

¹²and Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse;

¹³and Jesse begot his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,

¹⁴Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

¹⁵Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

¹⁷And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

¹⁸And Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah his wife, and by Jerioth: her sons are these: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹And Azubah died, and Caleb took him Ephrath, and she bore him Hur.

²⁰And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezaleel.

²¹And afterwards Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

²²And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;

²³and Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, with Kenath and its dependent towns, sixty cities. All these were sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

²⁴And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were: Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, of Ahijah.

²⁶And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

²⁷And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

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

²⁹And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

³⁰And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died without sons.

³¹And the sons of Appaim: Jishi; and the sons of Jishi: Sheshan; and the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

³²And the sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without sons.

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

³⁴And Sheshan had no sons, but daughters; and Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha;

³⁵and Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.

³⁶And Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad,

³⁷and Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed,

³⁸and Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah,

³⁹and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Elasah,

⁴⁰and Elasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum,

⁴¹and Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.

⁴²And 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.

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

⁴⁴And Shema begot Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem begot Shammai;

⁴⁵and the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.

⁴⁶And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez.

⁴⁷And the sons of Jehdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

⁴⁸Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah;

⁴⁹and she bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

⁵⁰These are the sons of Caleb. The sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah: Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,

⁵¹Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

⁵²And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, Hazi-Hammenuhoth.

⁵³And the families of Kirjath-jearim were the Jithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zoreathites and the Eshtaolites.

⁵⁴The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites. Atroth-Beth-Joab, and the Hazi-Hammana-hethites, the Zorites;

⁵⁵and the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez: the Tireathites, the Shimeathites, the Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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¹And these are the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jizreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

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

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

⁴six were born to him in Hebron. And there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

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

⁶and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

⁷and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

⁸and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine:

⁹all were sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

¹⁰And Solomon's son was 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 the sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

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

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

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

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

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

²¹And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Isaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

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

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

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

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¹The sons of Judah: Pherez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

²And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zoreathites.

³And these were of the father of Etam: Jizreel, and Jishma, and Jidbash; and the name of their sister was Hazlelponi;

⁴and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah: these were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, and father of Bethlehem.

⁵-- And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

⁶And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Ahashtari: these were the sons of Naarah.

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

⁸And Koz begot Anub, and Hazzobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

⁹And Jabez was more honoured than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with pain.

¹⁰And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest richly bless me, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God brought about what he had requested.

¹¹And Chelub the brother of Shuah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

¹²And Eshton begot Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of the city of Nahash: these were the men of Rechah.

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

¹⁴And Meonothai begot Ophrah: and Seraiah begot Joab, the father of the valley of craftsmen; for they were craftsmen.

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

¹⁶-- And the sons of Jehalleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asareel.

¹⁷-- And the sons of Ezra: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she conceived and bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Jishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

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

¹⁹-- And the sons of the wife of Hodijah, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

²⁰-- And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. -- And the sons of Jishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth.

²¹The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lechah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of byssus-workers, 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 are ancient things.

²³These were the potters, and those that abode among plantations and enclosures: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

²⁴The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Saul;

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

²⁶And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son;

²⁷and Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters. And his brethren had not many sons; neither did all their family multiply like to the sons of Judah.

²⁸And they abode at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shual,

²⁹and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

³⁰and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

³¹and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.

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

³³and all their villages that were round about these cities, as far as Baal. These were their habitations and their genealogical register.

³⁴And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,

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

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

³⁷and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah:

³⁸these mentioned by name were princes in their families; and their fathers' houses increased greatly.

³⁹And they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

⁴⁰And they found fat and good pasture, and a land widely extended and quiet and fertile, for they who had dwelt there formerly were of Ham.

⁴¹And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their stead; for there was pasture there for their flocks.

⁴²And five hundred men of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to mount Seir, having at their head Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Jishi,

⁴³and they smote the rest of the Amalekites that had escaped; and they dwelt there unto this day.