Chapter 7

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NOW the sons of Yisshakar were, Tola, and Pu'ah, Yashuv, and Shimron, four.

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And the sons of Tola; Uzziy, and Rephayah, and Yeriy'el, and Yachmai, and Yivsam, and Shemu'el, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of Daviyd two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

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And the sons of Uzziy; Yizrachyah: and the sons of Yizrachyah; Miyka'el, and Ovadyahu, and Yo'el, Yishshiyahu, five: all of them chief men.

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And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many women and sons.

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And their brethren among all the families of Yisshakar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

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The sons of Binyamiyn; Bela, and Beker, and Yediy'a'el, three.

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And the sons of Bela; Etsbon, and Uzziy, and Uzziy'el, and Yeriymoth, and Uriyahu, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

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And the sons of Beker; Zemiyrah, and Yo'ash, and Eliy`ezer, and Elyahu`aynai, and Omriy, and Yeriymoth, and Aviyahu, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Beker.

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And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valor, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

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The sons also of Yediy`a'el; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Ye`iysh, and Binyamiyn, and Ehud, and Kena`anah, and Zeythan, and Tarshiysh, and Achiyshachar.

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All these the sons of Yediy'a'el, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valor, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

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Shuppiym also, and Chuppiym, the children of Iyr, and Chushiym, the sons of Acher.

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The sons of Naphtaliy; Yachtse'el, and Guniy, and Yetser, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

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The sons of Menashsheh; Asriy'el, whom she bore: (but his concubine the Arammiy bore Makiyr the father of Gil'ad:

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And Makiyr took to be his woman the sister of Chuppiym and Shuppiym, whose sister's name was Ma`akah;) and the name of the second was Tselophchad: and Tselophchad had daughters.

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And Ma`akah the woman of Makiyr bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gil'ad, the son of Makiyr, the son of Menashsheh.

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And his sister Moleketh bore Iyshhod, and Aviy'ezer, and Machlah.

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And the sons of Shemiyda were, Achyan, and Shekem, and Liqchiy, and Aniy'am.

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And the sons of Ephrayim; Shuthelach, and Bered his son, and Tachath his son, and El'adah his son, and Tachath his son,

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And Zavad his son, and Shuthelach his son, and Etser, and El'ad, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

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And Ephrayim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

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And when he went in to his woman, she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his name Beriy'ah, because it went evil with his house.

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(And his daughter was She'erah, who built Beyt Choron the nether, and the upper, and את Uzzen She'erah.)

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And Rephach was his son, also Resheph, and Telach his son, and Tachan his son,

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La'dan his son, Ammiyhud his son, Eliyshama his son,

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Nun his son, Yahusha his son.

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And their possessions and habitations were, Beyt-El and the towns thereof, and eastward Na'aran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shekem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:

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And by the borders of the children of Menashsheh, Beyt Sha'an and her towns, Ta`anak and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Do'r and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Yoceph the son of Yashar'el.

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The sons of Asher; Yimnah, and Yishviy, and Yishvah, and Beriy'ah, and Serach their sister.

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And the sons of Beriy'ah; Chever, and Malkiy'el, who is the father of Birzoth.

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And Chever begat Yaphlet, and Shomer, and Chotham, and Shua`a their sister.

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And the sons of Yaphlet; Pacak, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Yaphlet.

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And the sons of Shemer; Achiy, and Ruhagah, Yechubbah, and Aram.

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And the sons of his brother Helem; Tsophach, and Yimna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

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The sons of Tsophach; Cuach, and Charnepher, and Shu'al, and Beriy, and Yimrah,

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Betser, and Hud, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Yithran, and Be'era.

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And the sons of Yether; Yephunneh, and Picpah, and Ara.

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And the sons of Ulla; Arach, and Channiy'el, and Ritsya.

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All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.



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