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Chapter 7 |
| 1 |
Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four. |
| 2 | And the sons of Tola; Uzzi,
and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their
father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their
generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and
six hundred. |
| 3 | And the
sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and
Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. |
| 4 | And with them, by their generations, after the house of
their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for
they had many wives and sons. |
| 5
| And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men
of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven
thousand. |
| 6 | The sons of
Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. |
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7 | And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and
Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of
valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and
thirty and four. |
| 8 | And
the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and
Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of
Becher. |
| 9 | And the number
of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of
their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand and two hundred. |
| 10 | The sons also of Jediael;
Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah,
and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. |
| 11 | All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their
fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers,
fit to go out for war and battle. |
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12 | Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the
sons of Aher. |
| 13 | The
sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of
Bilhah. |
| 14 | The sons of
Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir
the father of Gilead: |
| 15 |
And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name
was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had
daughters. |
| 16 | And
Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the
name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem. |
| 17 | And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These
were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. |
| 18 | And his sister Hammoleketh bare
Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. |
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19 | And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi,
and Aniam. |
| 20 | And the
sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah
his son, and Tahath his son, |
| 21
| And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom
the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to
take away their cattle. |
| 22 |
And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to
comfort him. |
| 23 | And when
he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name
Beriah, because it went evil with his house. |
| 24 | (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the
nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.) |
| 25 | And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his
son, and Tahan his son. |
| 26 |
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son. |
| 27 | Non his son, Jehoshuah his son. |
| 28 | And their possessions and
habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and
westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof,
unto Gaza and the towns thereof: |
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29 | And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and
her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In
these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel. |
| 30 | The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah,
and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. |
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31 | And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is
the father of Birzavith. |
| 32 |
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. |
| 33 | And the sons of Japhlet;
Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet. |
| 34 | And the sons of Shamer; Ahi,
and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. |
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35 | And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and
Shelesh, and Amal. |
| 36 |
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, |
| 37 | Bezer, and Hod, and
Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. |
| 38 | And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and
Ara. |
| 39 | And the sons of
Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia. |
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40 | All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's
house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number
throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was
twenty and six thousand men. |
