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1 Issachar had four sons: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron.
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Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
2 Tola had six sons: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel. They were heads of families of the clan of Tola and were famous soldiers. At the time of King David their descendants numbered 22,600.
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The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
3 Uzzi had one son, Izrahiah. Izrahiah and his four sons, Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, were all heads of families.
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The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
4 They had so many wives and children that their descendants were able to provide 36,000 men for military duty.
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With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
5 The official records of all the families of the tribe of Issachar listed 87,000 men eligible for military duty.
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Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
6 Benjamin had three sons: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
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[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 Bela had five sons: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri. They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 22,034 men eligible for military duty.
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The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
8 Becher had nine sons: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth.
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The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.
9 The official record of their descendants by families listed 20,200 men eligible for military duty.
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They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.
10 Jediael had one son, Bilhan, and Bilhan had seven sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
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The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
11 They were heads of families in the clan and were all famous soldiers. Their descendants included 17,200 men eligible for military duty.
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All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
12 Shuppim and Huppim also belonged to this tribe. Dan had one son, Hushim.
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Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.
13 Naphtali had four sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. (They were descendants of Bilhah. )
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The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
14 By his Aramean concubine, Manasseh had two sons, Asriel and Machir. Machir was the father of Gilead.
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The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:
15 Machir found a wife for Huppim and one for Shuppim. His sister's name was Maacah. Machir's second son was Zelophehad, and he had only daughters.
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and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
16 Maacah, Machir's wife, gave birth to two sons, whom they named Peresh and Sheresh. Peresh had two sons, Ulam and Rakem,
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Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
17 and Ulam had a son named Bedan. These are all descendants of Gilead, the son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh.
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The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.
18 Gilead's sister Hammolecheth had three sons: Ishod, Abiezer, and Mahlah
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His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
19 (Shemida had four sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.)
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The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
20 These are the descendants of Ephraim from generation to generation: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath,
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The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
21 Zabad, Shuthelah. Ephraim had two other sons besides Shuthelah: Ezer and Elead, who were killed when they tried to steal the livestock belonging to the native inhabitants of Gath.
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and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.
22 Their father Ephraim mourned for them for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.
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Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.
23 Then he had intercourse with his wife again, and she became pregnant and had a son. They named him Beriah, because of the trouble that had come to their family.
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He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
24 Ephraim had a daughter named Sheerah. She built the towns of Upper and Lower Beth Horon, and Uzzen Sheerah.
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His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.
25 Ephraim also had a son named Rephah, whose descendants were as follows: Resheph, Telah, Tahan,
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Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
26 Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama,
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Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
27 Nun, Joshua.
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Nun his son, Joshua his son.
28 The territory which they took and settled included Bethel and the towns around it, as far east as Naaran and as far west as Gezer and the towns around it. It also included the cities of Shechem and Ayyah, and the towns around them.
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Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns of it, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns of it; Shechem also and the towns of it, to Azzah and the towns of it;
29 The descendants of Manasseh controlled the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the towns around them. All these are the places where the descendants of Joseph son of Jacob lived.
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and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30 These are the descendants of Asher. He had four sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah; and one daughter, Serah.
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The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31 Beriah had two sons, Heber and Malchiel. (Malchiel founded the city of Birzaith.)
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The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32 Heber had three sons: Japhlet, Shomer, and Hotham; and one daughter, Shua.
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Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33 Japhlet also had three sons: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath.
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The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
34 His brother Shomer had three sons: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
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The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
35 His brother Hotham had four sons: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.
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The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
36 The descendants of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,
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The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
37 Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.
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Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
38 The descendants of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara,
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The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
39 and the descendants of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.
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The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.
40 All of these were descendants of Asher. They were heads of families, famous fighting men, outstanding leaders. Asher's descendants included 26,000 men eligible for military duty.
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All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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