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The sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosef the son of Yisra'el; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
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For Yehudah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Yosef's:)
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the sons of Re'uven the firstborn of Yisra'el: Hanokh, and Pallu, Hetzron, and Karmi.
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The sons of Yo'el: Shemayah his son, Gog his son, Shim`i his son,
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Mikhah his son, Re'ayah his son, Ba`al his son,
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Be'erah his son, whom Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashshur carried away captive: he was prince of the Re'uveni.
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His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned: the chief, Ye`i'el, and Zekharyah,
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and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Yo'el, who lived in `Aro`er, even to Nevo and Ba`al-Me`on:
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and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Perat, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gil`ad.
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In the days of Sha'ul, they made war with the Hagrim, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gil`ad.
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The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salkhah:
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Yo'el the chief, and Shafam the second, and Ya`nai, and Shafat in Bashan.
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Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Mikha'el, and Meshullam, and Sheva, and Yorai, and Ya`kan, and Zia, and `Ever, seven.
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These were the sons of Avichayil, the son of Huri, the son of Yao`ach, the son of Gil`ad, the son of Mikha'el, the son of Yeshishai, the son of Yachdo, the son of Buz;
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Achi the son of `Avdi'el, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.
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They lived in Gil`ad in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
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All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Yotam king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el.
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The sons of Re'uven, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.
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They made war with the Hagrim, with Yetur, and Nafish, and Nodav.
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They were helped against them, and the Hagrim were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
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They took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
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For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
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The children of the half-tribe of Menashsheh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Ba`al-Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
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These were the heads of their fathers' houses: even `Efer, and Yish`i, and Eli'el, and `Azri'el, and Yirmeyahu, and Hodavyah, and Yachdi'el, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
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They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
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The God of Yisra'el stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Ashshur, and the spirit of Tilgat-Pilne'eser king of Ashshur, and he carried them away, even the Re'uveni, and the Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, and brought them to Halach, and Havor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.