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1 Chronicles 7:7-24 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

7. The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five. They were heads of their ancestral houses and warriors. Their family records listed twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

8. The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth—all these were sons of Becher.

9. Their family records listed twenty thousand two hundred of their kindred who were heads of their ancestral houses and warriors.

10. The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11. All these were sons of Jediael, heads of ancestral houses and warriors. They numbered seventeen thousand two hundred men fit for military service…

12. Shupham and Hupham. The sons of Dan: Hushim.

13. The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. These were sons of Bilhah.

14. The sons of Manasseh, whom his Aramean concubine bore: she bore Machir, the father of Gilead.

15. Machir took a wife whose name was Maacah; his sister’s name was Molecheth. Manasseh’s second son was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16. Maacah, Machir’s wife, bore a son whom she named Peresh. He had a brother named Sheresh, whose sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17. The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

18. His sister Molecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19. The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20. The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, whose son was Bered, whose son was Tahath, whose son was Eleadah, whose son was Tahath,

21. whose son was Zabad. Ephraim’s son Shuthelah, and Ezer and Elead, who were born in the land, were killed by the inhabitants of Gath because they had gone down to take away their livestock.

22. Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, but after his relatives had come and comforted him,

23. he had relations with his wife, who conceived and bore a son whom he named Beriah, since evil had befallen his house.

24. He had a daughter, Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.

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