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.
5. The Bnei Peretz: Chetzron, and Chamul.
6. And the Bnei Zerach; Zimri, and Eitan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, five of them in all.
7. And the Bnei Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Yisroel, who transgressed the cherem.
8. And the Bnei Eitan; Azaryah.
9. The Bnei Chetzron also, that were born unto him: Yerachme'el, and Ram, and Keluvai.