16. Jehallelel had four sons: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17-18. Ezrah had four sons: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered married Bithiah, a daughter of the king of Egypt, and they had a daughter, Miriam, and two sons, Shammai and Ishbah. Ishbah founded the town of Eshtemoa. Mered also married a woman from the tribe of Judah, and they had three sons: Jered, who founded the town of Gedor; Heber, founder of the town of Soco; and Jekuthiel, founder of the town of Zanoah.
19. Hodiah married the sister of Naham. Their descendants founded the clan of Garm, which lived in the town of Keilah, and the clan of Maacath, which lived in the town of Eshtemoa.
20. Shimon had four sons: Amnon, Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon.Ishi had two sons: Zoheth and Benzoheth.
21. Shelah was one of Judah's sons. His descendants included Er, who founded the town of Lecah; Laadah, founder of the town of Mareshah; the clan of linen weavers, who lived in the town of Beth Ashbea;
22. Jokim and the people who lived in the town of Cozeba; and Joash and Saraph, who married Moabite women and then settled in Bethlehem. (These traditions are very old.)
23. They were potters in the service of the king and lived in the towns of Netaim and Gederah.
24. Simeon had five sons: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.
25. Shaul's son was Shallum, his grandson was Mibsam, and his great-grandson was Mishma.
26. Then from Mishma the line descended through Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei.
27. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his relatives had fewer children, and the tribe of Simeon did not grow as much as the tribe of Judah did.
28. Down to the time of King David the descendants of Simeon lived in the following towns: Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
29. Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
30. Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
31. Beth Marcaboth, Hazarsusim, Bethbiri, and Shaaraim.
32. They also lived in five other places: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan,
33. and the surrounding villages, as far south-west as the town of Baalath. These are the records which they kept of their families and of the places where they lived.
34-38. The following men were the heads of their clans:Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, Joel,Jehu (the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel),Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,Ziza (the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, a descendant of Jedaiah, Shimri, and Shemaiah).Because their families continued to grow,
39. they spread out westwards almost to Gerar and pastured their sheep on the eastern side of the valley in which that city is located.