1These were the sons of Yisra’ĕl: Re’uḇĕn, Shim‛on, Lĕwi and Yehuḏah, Yissasḵar and Zeḇulun,

2Dan, Yosĕph and Binyamin, Naphtali, Gaḏ and Ashĕr.

3The sons of Yehuḏah: Ěr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, the three born to him by the daughter of Shuwa, the Kena‛anitess. And Ěr, the first-born of Yehuḏah, was evil in the eyes of יהוה, and He slew him.

4And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perets and Zeraḥ. All the sons of Yehuḏah were five.

5The sons of Perets: Ḥetsron and Ḥamul.

6And the sons of Zeraḥ: Zimri, and Ěythan, and Hĕman, and Kalkol, and Dara, five of them in all.

7And the son of Karmi was Aḵar, the troubler of Yisra’ĕl, who trespassed in that which was under the ban.

8And the son of Ěythan was Azaryah.

9And the sons of Ḥetsron who were born to him: Yeraḥme’ĕl, and Ram, and Keluḇai.

10Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, leader of the children of Yehuḏah;

11Naḥshon brought forth Salma, and Salma brought forth Bo‛az;

12Bo‛az brought forth Oḇĕḏ, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai;

13Yishai brought forth Eliyaḇ his first-born, and Aḇinaḏaḇ the second, and Shim‛a the third,

14Nethanĕ’l the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

15Otsem the sixth, Dawiḏ the seventh.

16And their sisters: Tseruyah and Aḇig̅ayil. And the sons of Tseruyah: Aḇishai, and Yo’aḇ, and Asah’ĕl, three.

17And Aḇig̅ayil bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Yether the Yishma‛ĕlite.

18And Kalĕḇ son of Ḥetsron brought forth children by Azuḇah, his wife, and by Yeriyoth. Now these were her sons: Yĕsher, and Shoḇaḇ, and Ardon.

19And Azuḇah died, and Kalĕḇ took Ephrath as his wife, who bore him Ḥur.

20And Ḥur brought forth Uri, and Uri brought forth Betsal’ĕl.

21And afterward Ḥetsron went in to the daughter of Maḵir the father of Gil‛aḏ, whom he took when he was sixty years old. And she bore him Seg̅uḇ.

22And Seg̅uḇ brought forth Ya’ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil‛aḏ.

23And he took from them Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Ya’ir, with Qenath and its towns, sixty towns. All these belonged to the sons of Maḵir the father of Gil‛aḏ.

24And after the death of Ḥetsron in Kalĕḇ Ephrathah, Ḥetsron’s wife Aḇiyah bore him Ashḥur the father of Teqowa.

25And the sons of Yeraḥme’ĕl the first-born of Ḥetsron were: Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otsem, and Aḥiyah.

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

27And the sons of Ram, the first-born of Yeraḥme’ĕl, were Ma‛ats, and Yamin, and Ěqer.

28And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Yaḏa. And the sons of Shammai: Naḏaḇ and Aḇishur.

29And the name of the wife of Aḇishur was Aḇiḥayil, and she bore him Aḥban and Moliḏ.

30And the sons of Naḏaḇ: Seleḏ and Appayim, and Seleḏ died without children.

31And the son of Appayim was Yishi, and the son of Yishi was Shĕshan, and the son of Shĕshan was Aḥlai.

32And the sons of Yaḏa, the brother of Shammai: Yether and Yonathan, and Yether died without children.

33And the sons of Yonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Yeraḥme’ĕl.

34And Shĕshan had no sons, only daughters. And Shĕshan had a Mitsrian servant whose name was Yarḥa.

35And Shĕshan gave his daughter to Yarḥa his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.

36And Attai brought forth Nathan, and Nathan brought forth Zaḇaḏ,

37and Zaḇaḏ brought forth Ephlal, and Ephlal brought forth Oḇĕḏ,

38and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yĕhu, and Yĕhu brought forth Azaryah,

39and Azaryah brought forth Ḥelets, and Ḥelets brought forth El‛asah,

40and El‛asah brought forth Sismai, and Sismai brought forth Shallum,

41and Shallum brought forth Yeqamyah, and Yeqamyah brought forth Elishama.

42And the sons of Kalĕḇ the brother of Yeraḥme’ĕl: Mĕysha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Marĕshah the father of Ḥeḇron.

43And the sons of Ḥeḇron: Qoraḥ, and Tappuwaḥ, and Reqem, and Shema.

44And Shema brought forth Raḥam the father of Yorqe‛am, and Reqem brought forth Shammai.

45And the son of Shammai was Ma‛on, and Ma‛on was the father of Bĕyth Tsur.

46And Ěphah, Kalĕḇ’s concubine, bore Ḥaran, and Motsa, and Gazĕz. And Ḥaran brought forth Gazĕz.

47And the sons of Yahdai: Reg̅em, and Yotham, and Gĕyshan, and Pelet, and Ěphah, and Sha‛aph.

48Ma‛aḵah, Kalĕḇ’s concubine, bore Sheḇer and Tirḥanah.

49And she bore Sha‛aph the father of Maḏmannah, Shewa the father of Maḵbĕna and the father of Giḇ‛a. And the daughter of Kalĕḇ was Aḵsah.

50These were the descendants of Kalĕḇ: The sons of Ḥur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shoḇal the father of Qiryath Ye‛arim,

51Salma the father of Bĕyth Leḥem, Ḥarĕph the father of Bĕyth Gaḏer.

52And Shoḇal the father of Qiryath Ye‛arim had descendants: Haro’eh, half of the Menuḥothites.

53And the clans of Qiryath Ye‛arim: the Yithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Tsor‛athites and the Eshta’olites.

54The sons of Salma: Bĕyth Leḥem, the Netophathites, Atroth Bĕyth Yo’aḇ, and half of the Menaḥtites, and the Tsor‛ites.

55And the clans of the scribes who dwelt at Yaḇĕts: the Tirathites, the Shim‛athites, the Suḵathites. These were the Qĕynites who came from Ḥammath, the father of the house of Rĕḵaḇ.