2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shuas daughter the Canaanitess. Er, Judahs firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh; and he killed him.
2:4 Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
2:6 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of them in all.
2:7 The sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing.
2:8 The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
2:9 The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
2:10 Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
2:11 and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,
2:12 and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;
2:13 and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
2:16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.
2:17 Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
2:18 Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
2:19 Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
2:20 Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.
2:21 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
2:22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
2:23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
2:24 After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezrons wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
2:25 The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, Ahijah.
2:26 Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.
2:27 The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
2:28 The sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab, and Abishur.
2:29 The name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and Molid.
2:30 The sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
2:31 The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
2:32 The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.
2:33 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
2:35 Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife; and she bore him Attai.
2:36 Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,
2:37 and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,
2:38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
2:39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
2:40 and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,
2:41 and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.
2:42 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.
2:43 The sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
2:44 Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.
2:45 The son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth Zur.
2:46 Ephah, Calebs concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran became the father of Gazez.
2:47 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
2:48 Maacah, Calebs concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
2:49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
2:50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,
2:51 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
2:52 Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
2:53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
2:54 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
2:55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.