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1 Chronicles 7:4-21 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

4. And with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were thirty-six thousand, bands of the army for battle, for they had many wives and sons.

5. And their brothers among all the clans of Yissasḵar were mighty brave men, listed by their genealogies, eighty-seven thousand in all.

6. Of Binyamin: Bela, and Beḵer, and Yeḏiya’ĕl, three.

7. And the sons of Bela: Etsbon, and Uzzi, and Uzzi’ĕl, and Yerimoth, and Iri, five – heads of their fathers’ houses, and they were listed by their genealogies, twenty-two thousand and thirty-four mighty brave men.

8. And the sons of Beḵer: Zemirah, and Yo‛ash, and Eli‛ezer, and Elyo‛ĕynai, and Omri, and Yerimoth, and Aḇiyah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beḵer,

9. with their genealogy according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ houses, twenty thousand two hundred mighty brave men.

10. And the son of Yeḏiya’ĕl: Bilhan, and the sons of Bilhan: Ye‛ush, and Binyamin, and Ěhuḏ, and Kena‛anah, and Zĕthan, and Tarshish, and Aḥishaḥar.

11. All these sons of Yeḏiya’ĕl were heads of their fathers’ houses, seventeen thousand two hundred mighty brave men going out to the army for battle.

12. And Shuppim and Ḥuppim were the sons of Ir, and Ḥushim was the son of Aḥĕr.

13. The sons of Naphtali: Yaḥtsi’ĕl, and Guni, and Yĕtser, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah.

14. The sons of Menashsheh: his Aramean concubine bore him Maḵir the father of Gil‛aḏ, the father of Asri’ĕl.

15. And Maḵir took wives for Ḥuppim and Shuppim; and the name of one was Ma‛aḵah, and the name of the second was Tselophḥaḏ. And Tselophḥaḏ had daughters.

16. But Ma‛aḵah the wife of Maḵir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Raqem.

17. And the son of Ulam: Beḏan. These were the sons of Gil‛aḏ, son of Maḵir, son of Menashsheh.

18. And his sister Hammoleḵeth bore Ishhod, and Aḇi‛ezer, and Maḥlah.

19. And the sons of Shemiḏa: Aḥyan, and Sheḵem, and Liqḥi, and Aniyam.

20. And the sons of Ephrayim: Shuthelaḥ, and Bereḏ his son, and Taḥath his son, and Elaḏah his son, and Taḥath his son,

21. and Zaḇaḏ his son, and Shuthelaḥ his son, and Ezer and El‛aḏ. But the men of Gath who were born in that land slew them because they came down to take their livestock.

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