1. These are the Bnei Yisroel: Reuven, Shim'on, Levi, and Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun,
2. Dan, Yosef, and Binyamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3. The Bnei Yehudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, which three were born unto him of Bat-Shua the Kanaanit. And Er, the bechor of Yehudah, was rah in the eyes of Hashem; and He put him to death.
4. And Tamar his kallah (daughter-in-law) bore him Peretz and Zerach. All the Bnei Yehudah were five.