Open English Translation 1 CHR Chapter 7

7 Yisakar’s (Issachar) four sons were Tola, Puah, Yashuv, and Shimron. 2 Tola’s sons were Uzi, Refayah, Yeriel, Yahmay, Yivsam, and Shmuel (Samuel), who all became leaders of their clans. There were strong warriors in the record of Tola’s descendants in each generation. (During the time when David was Yisrael’s (Israel) king, there were 22,600 such men.)

3 Uzi’s son was Yizrahyah. Yizrahyah’s five sons were Mika’el (Michael), Ovadyah (Obadiah), Yoel (Joel), and Yishiyah. They were all leaders of their clans. 4 Along with them, according to their family records, were 36,000 troops in the army, because they had numerous wives and sons. 5 Altogether, Yisakar’s clans had 87,000 strong warriors listed in their genealogy.

6 Benyamin’s three sons were Bela, Beker, and Yedieael. 7 Bela’s five sons were Etsbon, Uzi, Uziel, Yerimot, and Iri, who were leaders of their clans. According to their family records, they had 22,034 strong warriors.

8 Beker’s sons were Zemirah, Yoash, Eliezer, Elyehoeynay, Omri, Yerimot, Aviyah, Anatot, and Alemet. 9 Altogether, their clans had 20,200 strong warriors listed in their genealogy.

10 Yedieael’s son was Bilhan. Bilhan’s sons were Ye’ush, Benyamin, Ehud, Kena’anah, Zeytan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11 All those descendants of Yedieael were clan leaders and strong warriors, having 17,200 men ready to go to war.

12 The Shupim and Hupim were descendants of Ir, and the Hushim were descendants of Aher.

13 Naftali’s (Naphtali) sons were Yahtsiel, Guni, Yetser, and Shalum. (They were descendants of Ya’akov’s (Jacob) slave-wife Bilhah.)

14 Menasheh (Manasseh) had sons by his Arami (Syrian) (Heb. Aramean) slave-wife. She gave birth to Asriel and Makir (who fathered Gilead). 15 Makir married a wife from the Hupim and Shupim. (His sister’s name was Ma’akah.) Another descendant was Tselofehad, and he had daughters. 16 Makir’s wife (also called Ma’akah) bore a son and named him Peresh (and named his brother Sheresh) and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. 17 Ulam’s son was Bedan. Those were the descendants of Gilead (Makir’s son and Menasheh’s grandson).

18 Gilead’s sister was Hamoleket. She was the mother of Ishehod, Aviezer, and Mahlah.

19 Another of Gilead’s sons was Shemida, whose sons were Ahyan, Shekem, Likhi, and Anieam.

20 These are Efrayim’s (Ephraim) descendants:

One of Efrayim’s sons was Shutelah. Shutelah’s son was Bered. Bered’s son was Tahat. Tahat’s son was Eleadah. Eleadah’s son was also named Tahat. 21 Tahat’s son was Zavad. Zavad’s son was Shutelah. Efrayim’s other sons, Ezer and Elead, went to Gat city to steal some cattle but were killed by some of the natives of that area. 22 Their father Efrayim mourned for quite some time, and his relatives came to comfort him. 23 Then he slept with his wife and she got pregnant and gave birth to a son. Efrayim named him Beriah (which sounds like the Hebrew word for ‘trouble’), because of the recent tragedy in their family.

24 Efrayim’s daughter was She’erah and she founded three towns: Lower Beyt-Horon, Upper Beyt-Horon, and Uzen-She’erah.

25 Another of Efrayim’s sons was Refah. Refah’s son was Reshef. Reshef’s son was Telah. Telah’s son was Tahan. 26 Tahan’s son was Laedan. Laedan’s son was Amihud. Amihud’s son was Elishama. 27 Elishama’s son was Nun. Nun’s son was Yehoshua (Joshua) (or Yehoshua, who led Yisrael’s (Israel) descendants after Mosheh (Moses) died).

28 This is a list of the cities and areas where Efrayim’s descendants lived: Beyt-El (Bethel) and the nearby villages, Na’aran to the east, Gezer to the west and the nearby villages, and Shekem and the nearby villages extending north as far as Ayah and its villages.

29 Along the border of the area where Menasheh’s (Manasseh) descendants lived were these towns: Beyt-Shean, Ta’anak, Megidon, Dor, and all the nearby villages. The people who lived in all those places were descendants of Ya’akov’s (Jacob) son Yosef (Joseph).

30 Asher’s sons were Yimnah, Yishvah, Yishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was Serah.

31 Beriah’s sons were Hever and Malkiel. Malkiel was the father of Birzot.

32 Hever was the father of Yaflet, Shomer, Hotam, and their sister Shua. 33 Yaflet’s sons were Pasak, Bimhal, and Ashvat.

34 Shomer’s sons were Ahi, Rohagah, Yehubah, and Aram.

35 Shomer’s younger brother was Helem. Helem’s sons were Tsofah, Yimna, Shelesh, and Amal.

36 Tsofah’s sons were Suah, Harnefer, Shual, Beri, Yimrah, 37 Betser, Hod, Shama, Shilshah, Yitran (whose other name was Yeter), and Be’era.

38 Yeter’s sons were Yefuneh, Pispah, and Ara. 39 Another of Asher’s descendants was Ula, whose sons were Arah, Haniyel, and Ritsya.

40 All those were Asher’s descendants, clan leaders, chosen, very strong, leaders of leaders. And there were 26,000 men listed in their genealogy in the army.