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1 These are some of the descendants of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.
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The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2 Shobal was the father of Reaiah, who was the father of Jahath, the father of Ahumai and Lahad, the ancestors of the people who lived in Zorah.
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Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3 Hur was the oldest son of his father Caleb's wife Ephrath, and his descendants founded the city of Bethlehem. Hur had three sons: Etam, Penuel, and Ezer. Etam had three sons: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash, and one daughter, Hazzelelponi. Penuel founded the city of Gedor, and Ezer founded Hushah.
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These were [the sons of] the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
5 Ashhur, who founded the town of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
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Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
6 He and Naarah had four sons: Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari.
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Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7 Ashhur and Helah had three sons: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
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The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
8 Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the ancestor of the clans descended from Aharhel son of Harum.
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Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
9 There was a man named Jabez, who was the most respected member of his family. His mother had given him the name Jabez, because his birth had been very painful.
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Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
10 But Jabez prayed to the God of Israel, "Bless me, God, and give me much land. Be with me and keep me from anything evil that might cause me pain." And God gave him what he prayed for.
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Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
11 Caleb, the brother of Shuhah, had a son, Mehir. Mehir was the father of Eshton,
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Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
12 who had three sons: Bethrapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah. Tehinnah was the founder of the city of Nahash. The descendants of these men lived in Recah.
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Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.
13 Kenaz had two sons, Othniel and Seraiah. Othniel also had two sons, Hathath and Meonothai.
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The sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath.
14 Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab, the founder of Handcraft Valley, where all the people were skilled workers.
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Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.
15 Caleb son of Jephunneh had three sons: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And Elah was the father of Kenaz.
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The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.
16 Jehallelel had four sons: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
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The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17 Ezrah had four sons: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered married Bithiah, a daughter of the king of Egypt, and they had a daughter, Miriam, and two sons, Shammai and Ishbah. Ishbah founded the town of Eshtemoa. Mered also married a woman from the tribe of Judah, and they had three sons: Jered, who founded the town of Gedor; Heber, founder of the town of Soco; and Jekuthiel, founder of the town of Zanoah.
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The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
19 Hodiah married the sister of Naham. Their descendants founded the clan of Garm, which lived in the town of Keilah, and the clan of Maacath, which lived in the town of Eshtemoa.
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The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20 Shimon had four sons: Amnon, Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. Ishi had two sons: Zoheth and Benzoheth.
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The sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
21 Shelah was one of Judah's sons. His descendants included Er, who founded the town of Lecah; Laadah, founder of the town of Mareshah; the clan of linen weavers, who lived in the town of Beth Ashbea;
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The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
22 Jokim and the people who lived in the town of Cozeba; and Joash and Saraph, who married Moabite women and then settled in Bethlehem. (These traditions are very old.)
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and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.
23 They were potters in the service of the king and lived in the towns of Netaim and Gederah.
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These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
24 Simeon had five sons: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.
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The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
25 Shaul's son was Shallum, his grandson was Mibsam, and his great-grandson was Mishma.
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Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26 Then from Mishma the line descended through Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei.
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The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his relatives had fewer children, and the tribe of Simeon did not grow as much as the tribe of Judah did.
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Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn't have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
28 Down to the time of King David the descendants of Simeon lived in the following towns: Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
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They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
29 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,
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and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30 Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,
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and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
31 Beth Marcaboth, Hazarsusim, Bethbiri, and Shaaraim.
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and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities to the reign of David.
32 They also lived in five other places: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan,
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Their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
33 and the surrounding villages, as far southwest as the town of Baalath. These are the records which they kept of their families and of the places where they lived.
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and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
34 The following men were the heads of their clans: Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah son of Amaziah, Joel, Jehu (the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel), Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, Ziza (the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, a descendant of Jedaiah, Shimri, and Shemaiah). Because their families continued to grow,
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Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
39 they spread out westward almost to Gerar and pastured their sheep on the eastern side of the valley in which that city is located.
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They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40 They found plenty of fertile pasture lands there in a stretch of open country that was quiet and peaceful. The people who had lived there before were Hamites.
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They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
41 In the time of King Hezekiah of Judah, the men named above went to Gerar and destroyed the tents and huts of the people who lived there. They drove the people out and settled there permanently because there was plenty of pasture for their sheep.
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These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
42 Five hundred other members of the tribe of Simeon went east to Edom. They were led by the sons of Ishi: Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel.
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Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
43 There they killed the surviving Amalekites, and they have lived there ever since.
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They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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