1 Adam, Shet (Seth), Enosh, 2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Yared (Jared), 3 Hanok (Enoch), Metushelah (Methuselah), Lamek, 4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Yafet (Japeth).

5 Yafet’s sons were Gomer, Magog, Maday, Yavan, Tuval, Meshek, and Tiras. 6 Gomer’s sons were Ashkenaz, Rifat, and Togarmah. 7 Javan’s sons were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

8 Ham’s sons were Kush, Mitsrayim, Put, and Kanaan. 9 Kush’s sons were Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Savteka. Raamah’s sons were Sheva and Dedan. 10 Then Kush fathered Nimrod and he became a mighty warrior. 11 Mitsrayim was the ancestor of the Lud, the Anam, the Lehab, the Naftuh, 12 the Patrus, the Kasluh, and the Kaftor people groups. (The Philistines descended from the Kasluh people group.) 13 Kanaan’s first son was Tsidon, and then he was also the ancestor of the Hittites, 14 the Yebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 15 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 16 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamatites.

17 Shem’s sons were Elam, Ashur, Arpakshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram’s sons were: Uts, Hul, Geter, and Meshek. 18 Arpakshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber. 19 Eber had two sons: Peleg (which sounds like the Hebrew word for ‘divided’ because in his lifetime, the earth was divided)[ref] and Yoktan. 20 Yoktan was the ancestor of: Almodad, Shelef, Hatsarmavet, Yerah, 21 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 22 Eybal, Abimael, Sheva, 23 Ofir, Havilah, and Yovav. All those were the descendants of Yoktan.

24 These were the descendants of Shem (in order from him to Abraham): Arpakshad, Shelah, 25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, 26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, 27 and Abram (whose name God later changed to Abraham).

28 Abraham’s sons were Yitshak (Isaac) and Yishmael (Ishmael). 29 These were their family lines: The firstborn son of Yishmael (the son of Abraham’s slave wife Hagar) was Nevayot, then his other sons Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, 30 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, 31 Yetur, Nafish, and Kedemah. Those were Yishmael’s twelve sons. 32 The sons of Abraham’s slave wife Keturah were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midyan, Yishbak, and Shuah. Yokshan’s sons were Sheva and Dedan. 33 Midyan’s sons were Efah, Efer, Hanok, Abida, and Eldaah. All those were Keturah’s descendants.

34 Abraham had his son Yitshak by his wife Sarah, and Yitshak’s sons: were Esau and Yakov, whose name God later changed to Yisrael (Israel).

35 Esau’s sons were Elifaz, Reuel, Yeush, Yalam, and Korah. 36 Elifaz’s sons were Teman, Omar, Tsefo, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. 37 Reuel’s sons were Nahat, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

38 Seir was another descendant of Esau and his sons were Lotan, Shoval, Tsiveon, Anah, Dishon, Etser, and Dishan. 39 Lotan’s sons were Hori and Homam, and Lotan’s sister was Timna. 40 Shoval’s sons were Alyan, Manahat, Eyval, Shefo, and Onam. Tsiveon’s sons were Ayyah and Anah. 41 Anah’s son was Dishon. Dishon’s sons were Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. 42 Etser’s sons were Bilhan, Zaavan, and Yaakan. Dishan’s sons were Uts and Aran.

43 These are the kings who ruled the region of Edom (where Seir’s descendants lived) before any kings ruled over Israel: Bela son of Beor, and his city’s name was Dinhavah. 44 When Bela died, Zerah’s son Yovav from Batsrah city replaced him as king. 45 When Yovav died, Husham replaced him as king. He was from the region where the Teman people group lived. 46 When Husham died, Bedad’s son Hadad replaced him as king. His city’s name was Avit. Hadad defeated the Midyan people group in the Moab region. 47 When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah city replaced him as king. 48 When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehovot-on-the-river replaced him as king. 49 When Shaul died, Akbor’s son Baal-Hanan replaced him as king. 50 When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad replaced him as king. His city’s name was Pa’u. His wife’s name was Meheytavel—she was the daughter of Matred and the granddaughter of Me-Zahab.

51 Then Hadad[ref] died.

The leaders of the Edom people group were Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Yetet, 52 Aholivamah, Elah, Pinon, 53 Kenaz, Teman, Mivtsar, 54 Magdiel, and Iram. Those were the chiefs of Edom.

2 These were Yisrael’s sons: Reuben, Shimeon (Simeon), Levi, and Yehudah (Judah), Yissaskar (Issachar), and Zebulun, 2 Dan, Yosef (Joseph), Benyamin, Naftali, Gad, and Asher.

3 Yehudah’s sons (with the Canaanite woman Bat-Shua) were Er, and Onan, and Shelah. (Yehudah’s eldest son, Er, was evil in Yahweh’s eyes, and he killed him.) 4 His daughter-in-law Tamar had twin boys named Perets and Zerah, so altogether Yehudah had five sons.

5 Perets’s sons were Hetsron and Hamul. 6 Zerah had five sons: Zimri, Eytan, Heyman, Kalkol, and Dara. 7 Zimri had a son named Karmi. Karmi had a son named Akar who brought trouble into Yisrael by violating a ban on devoted things.[ref] 8 Eytan’s son was Azaryah.

9 Hetsron had three sons: Yerahme’el, Ram, and Keluvay.[fn]

10 Ram was the father of Amminadav, and Amminadav was the father of Nahshon—a leader of the tribe of Yehudah. 11 Nahshon was the father of Salma. Salma was the father of Boaz. 12 Boaz was the father of Oved. Oved was the father of Yishay (Jesse). 13 Yishay had his son Eliav first, Abinadab second, Shimea third. 14 Netanel fourth, Raddai fifth, 15 Otsem sixth, then David last. 16 Their sisters were Tseruyah and Avigayil. Tseruyah’s three sons were Avshai, Yoav (Joab), and Asah’el. 17 Avigayil had Amasa. Amasa’s father was Yeter, a descendant of Yishmael (Ishmael).

18 Hetsron’s third son Kalev (Caleb) had sons with Azuvah, one of his wives. The sons were Yesher, Shovav, and Ardon. (The other wife’s name was Yeriot.) 19 When Azuvah died, Kalev married Efrat, and they had a son named Hur. 20 Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Betsal’el.

21 Later, when Hetsron was sixty years old, he had sexual intercourse with a daughter of Makir from the region of Gilead and married her. Hetsron’s new wife gave birth to their son Seguv. 22 Seguv was the father of Yair, and Yair controlled twenty-three cities in the Gilead region. 23 But Geshur and Aram captured Havvot-Yair and Kenat from them, plus their surrounding towns—sixty towns in all populated by descendants of Makir (the father of Gilead). 24 After Hetsron’s death in Kalev-Efratah, then his wife Aviyyah bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

25 Hetsron’s oldest son was Yerahme’el and his sons were Ram (the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Otsem, and Ahiyyah. 26 Yerahme’el had another wife named Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. 27 The sons of Yerahme’el’s oldest son, Ram, were Maats, Yamin, and Eker. 28 Onam’s sons were Shammai and Yada, and Shammai’s sons were Nadav and Avishur.

29 Abishur’s wife was Avihayil, and their sons were Ahban and Molid. 30 Nadav’s sons were Seled and Appayim. (Seled died childless.) 31 Appayim’s son was Yishi, Yishi’s son was Sheshan, and Sheshan’s son was Ahlai.

32 The sons of Shammai’s brother Yada were Yeter and Yonatan. (Yeter died childless.) 33 Yonatan’s sons were Pelet and Zaza.

Those were the descendants of Yerahme’el.

34 Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. He had a male servant from Egypt whose name was Yarha 35 and Sheshan gave his daughter to him for a wife and they had a sonc Attai. 36 Attai was the father of Natan, and Natan was the father of Zavad. 37 Zabad was the father of Eflal, and Eflal was the father of Oved. 38 Oved was the father of Yehu, and Yehu was the father of Azaryah. 39 Azaryah was the father of Helets, and Helets was the father of Eleasah. 40 Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum. 41 Shallum was the father of Yekamyah, and Yekamyah was the father of Elishama.

42 The oldest son of Yerahme’el’s brother Kalev was Meysha. Meysha was the father of Zif, and Zif was the father of Mareshah. Mareshah was the father of Hevron. 43 Hevron’s sons were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. 44 Shema was the father of Raham. Raham was the father of Yorkeam. Rekem was the father of Shammai. 45 Shammai’s son was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beyt-Tsur. 46 Kalev had a slave wife named Eyfah who gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. Haran had a son who he also named Gazez. 47 Yahdai’s sons were: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Eyfah, and Shaaph.

48 Kalev had another slave wife named Maacah who gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. 49 She also gave birth to Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), Sheva (father of Makbenah and Gibea), and Kalev’s daughter Aksah.

50 These people were also descendants of Kalev: His other wife Efratah had a son Hur. Hur’s sons were Shobal (founder of Kiriat-Yearim city), 51 Salma (founder of Beyt-Lehem (Bethlehem)), and Haref (founder of Beyt-Gader). 52 The descendants of Shobal (founder of Kiriat-Yearim) were Haroeh, half of the Manahatites, 53 and the clans from Kiriat-Yearim: the Yitrites, the Putites, the Shumatites, and the Mishraites. From those came the Zoratites and Eshtaolites. 54 Salma’s descendants were the people of Beyt-Lehem, the Netofatites, the clan of Atrot-Beyt-Yoav, half of the Manahatites, who were also Zorites. 55 The clans of the scribes lived at Yabez: the Tiratites, the Shimeatites, and the Sucatites. These, the Kenites who came from Hammat, the ancestor of Rekav’s family.

3 These were David’s sons who were born to him in Hevron: the firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam the Yezreelite, the second Daniyel by Avigayil the Karmelite, 2 the third Avishalom (Absalom), the son of Maakah (daughter of King Talmai of Geshur), the fourth Adoniyyah, the son of Haggit, 3 the fifth Shefatyah by Avital, the sixth Yitream by his wife Eglah.

4 Six were born to David in Hevron where he reigned for seven and a half years.[ref]

Then he reigned in Yerushalem for thirty-three years 5 and these were born to him there: Beyt-Shua (also known as Bathsheba, daughter of Ammiel) gave birth to four sons: Shimea, Shovav, Natan, and Shelomoh (Solomon).[ref] 6 Other sons were Yivhar, Elishama, Elifelet, 7 Nogah, Nefeg, Yafia, 8 Elishama, Elyada, and Elifelet. (Nine in all.) 9 David also had sons from his slave wives. Their sister was Tamar.

10 Shelomoh had a son Rehovoam, he had a son Aviyyah, he had a son Asa, he had a son Yehoshafat, 11 he had a son Yehoram, he had a son Ahazyah, he had a son Yoash, 12 he had a son Amatsyah, he had a son Azaryah, he had a son Yotham, 13 he had a son Ahaz, he had a son Hezekiyyah, he had a son Menashsheh, 14 he had a son Amon, and he had a son Yosiyyah. 15 Yosiyyah had four sons: The oldest was Yohanan, second was Yehoyakim, third was Tsedekiyyah, and the fourth was Shallum. 16 Yehoyakim had a son Yekaneyah, and he had a son Tsedekiyyah.

17 Yekaneyah was captured and taken to Babylon. His sons were Shealtiel, 18 Malkiram, Pedayah, Shenatstsar, Yekamyah, Hoshama, and Nedavyah. 19 Pedayah’s sons were Zerubbavel and Shimei. Two of Zerubbavel’s sons were Meshullam and Hananyah, and their sister was Shelomit. 20 Zerubbavel’s five other sons were Hashubah, Ohel, Berekyah, Hasadyah, and Yushab-Hesed. 21 Hananyah’s descendants were Pelatyah, Yeshayah, and the sons of Refayah, of Arnan, of Ovadyah, and of Shekanyah. 22 Shekanyah’s six descendants were Shemayah, and Shemayah’s sons Hattush, Yigal, Bariyah, Nearyah, and Shafat. 23 Nearyah’s three sons were Elyoenai, Hizkiyyah, and Azrikam. 24 Elyoenai’s seven sons were Hodavyah, Eliashiv, Pelayah, Akkuv, Yohanan, Delayah, and Anani.

4 Yehudah’s sons were Perets, Hetsron, Karmi, Hur, and Shoval. 2 Shoval had a son Reayah, Reayah had a son Yahat, and Yahat had Ahumai and Lahad. Those were the ancestors of the Tsoratites. 3 Yezreel, Ishma, and Idbash started the clans that lived in Eytam city, and they had a sister named Hatselelponi. 4 Hur was the firstborn son of his mother Efratah and he founded Beyt-Lehem city. Hur had these descendants: Penuel and Ezer. Penuel started the clans that lived in Gedor city, and Ezer started the clans that lived in Hushah city. 5 Hetsron’s son Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives Helah and Naarah, 6 and Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hefer, Teymeni, and Haahashtari. 7 The sons of Ashhur and his wife Helah were Tseret, Tsohar, Etnan, 8 and Kots. Kots was the father of Anub, Hatstsovevah, and the ancestor of the clans descended from Harum’s son Aharhel.

9 Yabets was more respected than his brothers. His mother had named him Yabets (which sounds like the word meaning ‘pain’), saying, “It’s because I bore him in pain.” 10 Yabets called out to Yisrael’s God, saying, “Oh that you would surely bless me, and would help me and enlarge my territory, and you wouldn’t do anything to harm me, so that I wouldn’t be in pain.” And God did what Yabets requested.

11 Another descendant of Yehudah was Shuhah. His brother Kelub was the father of Mehir. Mehir was the father of Eshton. 12 Eshton was the father of Beyt-Rafa, Paseah, and Tehinnah. Tehinnah founded Nahash city, but lived in Rekah.

13 The sons of Kenaz were Otniel and Serayah. And the sons of Otniel were Hathath and Meonotai.[fn] 14 Meonotai has a son Ofrah, and Serayah fathered Yoav, the founder of Craftsmen’s Valley, because they were craftsmen.

15 The sons of Kalev (Yefunneh’s son) were Iru, Elah, Naam, and Elah’s son was Kenaz.

16 The sons of Yehallelel were Zif, Zifah, Tiriya, and Asarel.

17 The sons of Ezrah were Yeter, Mered, Efer, and Yalon. And Mered’s wife Bityah conceived Miryam, and Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. 18 She was one of Far-oh’s (Pharaoh’s) daughters. Mered’s wife who was a descendant of Yehudah (Judah) gave birth to Yered the father of Gedor, Hever the father of SoKo, and Yekutiel the father of Zanoah. 19 The sons of the Hodiyyah’s wife (sister of Naham) were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and the father of Eshtemoa the Maakatite.

20 Shimon’s sons were Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tilon.

Ishi’s sons were Zohet and Ben-Zohet.

21 The sons of Shelah (one of Yehudah’s sons) were Er (father of Lekah), Laadah (father of Mareshah and the clans who worked with linen at Beyt-Ashbea), 22 Yokim, and the men of Kozeba, and Yoash and Saraf, who ruled in Moav and Yashubi-Lehem. (All this from ancient records.) 23 They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah—they lived there and worked for the king.

24 Shimeon’s sons were Nemuel, Yamin, Yarib, Zerah, and Shaul. 25 Shaul’s son was Shallum. Shallum’s son was Mivsam. Mivsam’s son was Mishma. 26 The following were Mishma’s descendants: Mishma’s son was Hammuel. Hammuel’s son was Zakkur. Zakkur’s son was Shimei. 27 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but none of his brothers had many children, so Shimeon’s descendants never were as many as those of his younger brother Yehudah (Judah).

28 Shimeon’s descendants lived in these cities and towns: Beer-Sheva (Beersheba), Moladah, Hatsar-Shual,[ref] 29 Bilhah, Etsem, Tolad, 30 Betuel, Hormah, Tsiklag, 31 Beyt-Markaboth, Hatsar-Susim, Beyt-Biri, and Shaaraim. They lived in those places until David became king. 32 They also lived in five villages: Eytam, Ayin, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, 33 and all their villages which are around these towns as far as Baal. Those were their settlements, and they kept their genealogical records.

34 Their clan leaders were Meshovav, Yamlek, Yoshah the son of Amatsyah, 35 Yoel, Yehu the son of Yoshibiah, the son of Serayah, the son of Asiel, 36 as well as Elioenai, Yaakobah, Yeshohaiah, Asayah, Adiel, Yesimiel, Benayah, 37 Ziza the son of Shifi, the son of Allon, the son of Yedayah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemayah. 38 Those who are named above were the leaders of their clans, and their extended families increased greatly in number, 39 and they went to the entrance of Gedor (to the east of the valley) in search of pasture for their flocks. 40 They found good, fertile pasture, and the land was wide, and quiet and peaceful, because Ham’s descendants had lived there previously.

41 Those listed by name, went there in the days of Yehudah’s King Hezekiah, and struck down the tents of the Meunites who were found there. They completely annihilated them (to this day), and they lived there in their place because pasture for their flock was there. 42 Then five hundred of their men who were descendants of Shimeon went to Mt. Seir, led by Yishi’s sons Pelatyah, Nearyah, Refayah, and Uzziel. 43 They also struck down the rest of the Amalekites who escaped, and they’ve lived there to this day.

5 Reuben was the firstborn of Yisrael (or Israel, also known as Yakov/Jacob), but when he had sex with one of his father’s slave wives, his birthright was given to the sons of Yosef (Joseph), another one of Yisrael’s sons. So Reuben wasn’t recorded as inheriting the birthright,[ref] 2 and although Yehudah (Judah) was stronger than his other brothers and would be the son to produce a ruler, the birthright went to Yosef. 3 The sons of Yisrael’s eldest son Rueben were Hanok, Pallu, Hetsron, and Karmi.

4 Another descendant of Reuben was Yoel and his son was Shemayah. Shemayah’s son was Gog. Gog’s son was Shimei.[ref] 5 Shimei’s son was Mikah. Mikah’s son was Reayah. Reayah’s son was Baal. 6 Baal’s son was Beerah who became a leader of the Reubenites, but the Assyrian King Tiglat-Pileser captured him and took him back to Assyria. 7 His brothers by their clans, as listed in their genealogical records: Yeiel the leader, Zekaryah, 8 Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Yoel. Reuben’s clan lived near the city of Aroer as far north as the cities of Nevo and Baal-Meon. 9 Some of them lived further east, as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their livestock had multiplied back in the Gilead region. 10 (In the days of King Shaul (Saul), they’d battled with the Hagrites and defeated them, so then they’d lived in their tents over all eastern Gilead.)