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14 Nethanel, Raddai,
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the fourth Nethanel, the fifth Raddai,
15 Ozem, and finally David; David was the seventh.
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the sixth Ozem and the seventh David.
16 Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah gave birth to three sons: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel;
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Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons were Abishai, Joab and Asahel.
17 Abigail was the mother of Amasa (the father was Jether the Ishmaelite).
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Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
18 Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and also by Jerioth. Azubah's sons were Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
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Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah (and by Jerioth). These were her sons: Jesher, Shobab and Ardon.
19 After Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who gave birth to Hur.
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When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
20 Hur had Uri and Uri had Bezalel.
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Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri the father of Bezalel.
21 Some time later Hezron married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead; he was sixty years old when he married her; she gave birth to Segub.
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Later, Hezron, when he was sixty years old, married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. He made love to her, and she bore him Segub.
22 Then Segub had Jair who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
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Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.
23 Geshur and Aram captured the nomadic villages of Jair and Kenath and their satellite settlements - sixty towns. These all belonged to Makir the father of Gilead.
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(But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair, as well as Kenath with its surrounding settlements—sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.
24 After the death of Hezron, Caleb married Ephrathah the wife of his father Hezron; she then gave birth to Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
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After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
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