2 ^1-2 The sons of Israel were: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.

³ Judah had three sons by Bathshua, a girl from Canaan: Er, Onan, and Shelah. But the oldest son, Er, was so wicked that the Lord killed him.

⁴ Then Er’s widow, Tamar, and her father-in-law, Judah, became the parents of twin sons, Perez and Zerah. So Judah had five sons.

⁵ The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

⁶ The sons of Zerah were: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara.

⁷ (Achan, the son of Carmi, was the man who robbed God and was such a troublemaker for his nation.)

⁸ Ethan’s son was Azariah.

⁹ The sons of Hezron were Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.

¹⁰ Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of Israel.

¹¹ Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz.

¹² Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of Jesse.

¹³ Jesse’s first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea, ¹⁴ his fourth was Nethanel, his fifth was Raddai, ¹⁵ his sixth was Ozem, and his seventh was David. ¹⁶ He also had two girls (by the same wife) named Zeruiah and Abigail.

Zeruiah’s sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.

¹⁷ Abigail, whose husband was Jether from the land of Ishmael, had a son named Amasa.

¹⁸ Caleb (the son of Hezron) had two wives, Azubah and Jerioth. These are the children of Azubah: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

¹⁹ After Azubah’s death, Caleb married Ephrath, who presented him with a son, Hur.

²⁰ Hur’s son was Uri, and Uri’s son was Bezalel.

²¹ Hezron married Machir’s daughter at the age of sixty, and she presented him with a son, Segub. (Machir was also the father of Gilead.)

²² Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled^[a] twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ²³ But Geshur and Aram wrested these cities from him and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.

²⁴ Soon after his father Hezron’s death, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father’s widow, and she gave birth to Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

²⁵ These are the sons of Jerahmeel (the oldest son of Hezron): Ram (the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

²⁶ Jerahmeel’s second wife Atarah was the mother of Onam.

²⁷ The sons of Ram: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

²⁸ Onam’s sons were Shammai and Jada. Shammai’s sons were Nadab and Abishur.

²⁹ The sons of Abishur and his wife Abihail were Ahban and Molid.

³⁰ Nadab’s sons were Seled and Appaim. Seled died without children, ³¹ but Appaim had a son named Ishi; Ishi’s son was Sheshan; and Sheshan’s son was Ahlai.

³² Shammai’s brother Jada had two sons, Jether and Jonathan. Jether died without children, ³³ but Jonathan had two sons named Peleth and Zaza.

^34-35 Sheshan^[b] had no sons, although he had several daughters. He gave one of his daughters to be the wife of Jarha, his Egyptian servant. And they had a son whom they named Attai.

³⁶ Attai’s son was Nathan; Nathan’s son was Zabad; ³⁷ Zabad’s son was Ephlal; Ephlal’s son was Obed; ³⁸ Obed’s son was Jehu; Jehu’s son was Azariah; ³⁹ Azariah’s son was Helez; Helez’s son was Eleasah; ⁴⁰ Eleasah’s son was Sismai; Sismai’s son was Shallum; ⁴¹ Shallum’s son was Jekamiah; Jekamiah’s son was Elishama.

⁴² The oldest son of Caleb (Jerahmeel’s brother) was Mesha; he was the father of Ziph, who was father of Mareshah, who was the father of Hebron.

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

⁴⁴ Shema was the father of Raham, who was the father of Jorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai.

⁴⁵ Shammai’s son was Maon, the father of Bethzur.

⁴⁶ Caleb’s concubine Ephah bore him Haran, Moza, and Gazez; Haran had a son named Gazez.

⁴⁷ The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.

^48-49 Another of Caleb’s concubines, Maacah, bore him Sheber, Tirhanah, Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), and Sheva (the father of Machbenah and of Gibea). Caleb also had a daughter, whose name was Achsah.

⁵⁰ The sons of Hur (who was the oldest son of Caleb^[c] and Ephrathah) were Shobal (the father of Kiriath-jearim), ⁵¹ Salma (the father of Bethlehem), and Hareph (the father of Beth-gader).

⁵² Shobal’s sons included Kiriath-jearim and Haroeh, the ancestor of half of the Menuhoth tribe.

⁵³ The families of Kiriath-jearim were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites (from whom descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites).

⁵⁴ The descendants of Salma were his son Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites; ⁵⁵ they also included the families of the writers living at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. All these are Kenites who descended from Hammath, the founder of the family of Rechab.