1The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
2And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
3And these were the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
4and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
5And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives (ishah), Helah and Naarah.
6And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
7And the sons of Helah: Zereth, and Zohar, and Ethnan.
8And Koz begot Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
9And Jabez was more honored than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with pain."
10And Jabez called to the God of Israel, saying, "If you will surely bless me, and enlarge my border, and your hand be with me, and you would keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!" And God brought about that which he asked.
11And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir; he was the father of Eshton.
12And Eshton begot Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men (ish) of Recah.
13And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
14And Meonothai begot Ophrah; and Seraiah begot Joab the father of Ge-harashim, for they were craftsmen.
15And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah: and Kenaz.
16And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
17And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon. And she conceived Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
18And his wife (ishah) the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
19And the sons of the wife (ishah) of Hodiah, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
20And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
21The 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 the service (avodah) of fine linen, of the house of Ashbea;
22and Jokim, and the men (ish) of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled over Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And the matters are ancient.
23These were the potters, and those dwelling among plantations and hedges; with the king in his work they dwelt there.
24The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
27And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many sons, and all their family did not multiply, like the sons of Judah.
28And they dwelt in Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual;
29and in Bilhah, and in Ezem, and in Tolad;
30and in Bethuel, and in Hormah, and in Ziklag;
31and in Beth-marcaboth, and in Hazar-susim, and in Beth-biri, and in Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.
32And their villages: Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
33and all their villages that were round about these cities, as far as Baal. These were their dwellings, and they have their genealogy.
34And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah;
35and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel;
36and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah;
37and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
38these mentioned by name were princes in their families; and the house of their fathers increased greatly.
39And they went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.
40And they found fat and good pasture, and the land was broad of hands, and quiet, and at peace; for those of Ham had dwelt there before.
41And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents and the Meunim that were found there, and devoted them to destruction until this day, and dwelt in their place; for there was pasture there for their flocks.
42And some of them, of the sons of Simeon, went to Mount Seir, five hundred men (ish), with Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.
43And they struck the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they dwelt there until this day.