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7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri—five heads of a house of fathers, mighty of valor, and reckoned twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were sons of Becher.

9 And they were reckoned according to their generations, heads of a house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand and two hundred.

10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of the fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle.

12 And Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and Hushim was son of Aher.

13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

15 And Machir took a wife of Huppim and of Shuppim, and the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad begat only daughters.

16 And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17 And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh.

18 And His sister Hammoleketh bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19 And the sons of Shemida were: Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son. And Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath who were born in the land, because they came down to take away their livestock.

22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because disaster had come upon his house.

24 And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Beth-horon Lower and Upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph his son, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.

28 And their possessions and dwelling places were Bethel and its daughters, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its daughters, and Shechem and its daughters, as far as Ayyah and its daughters.

29 And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh were Beth-shean and its daughters, Taanach and its daughters, Megiddo and its daughters, Dor and its daughters. In these dwelt the sons of Joseph son of Israel.

30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel; he was the father of Birzaith.

32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

34 And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, and Jehubbah, and Aram.

35 And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.

40 All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of their fathers, choice mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. They were reckoned for the host, for battle, and their number of men was twenty-six thousand.