1. Now the Bnei Reuven the bechor Yisroel, for he was the bechor; but forasmuch as he defiled the bed of aviv, his bechorah (firstborn birthright) was given unto the Bnei Yosef Ben Yisroel, though [the latter was] not listed in the family registers as the bechorah.
2. For Yehudah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the nagid; but the bechorah (portion of the firstborn) was Yosef's.
3. The Bnei Reuven bechor Yisroel were Chanoch, and Pallu, Chetzron, and Carmi.
4. The Bnei Yoel: Shema'yah bno, Gog bno, Shimei bno,
5. Michah bno, Reayah bno, Ba'al bno,
6. Be'erah bno, whom Tilgat Pilneser Melech Ashur carried away into the Golus; he was nasi of the Reuveni.
7. And his relatives by their mishpekhot, when the genealogy of their toldot was reckoned, were the rosh, Ye'i'el, and Zecharyah,
8. And Bela Ben Azaz Ben Shema Ben Yoel who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nevo and Baal Meon;
9. And eastward he inhabited as far as the beginning of the midbar from the river Euphrates, because their mikneh (livestock) were multiplied in Eretz Gil'ad.
10. And in the days of Sha'ul they made milchamah with the Hagari'im, who fell by their yad; and they dwelt in their ohalim (tents) throughout all the area east of Gil'ad.
11. And the Bnei Gad dwelt next to them, in the Eretz Bashan as far as Salchah;
12. Yoel the rosh, and Shapham the mishneh (second), and Ya'nai, and Shaphat in Bashan.