1 Chronicles 7
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1 Chronicles 7:14-29

14Manasseh’s sons were Asriel and Machir. Their mother was Manasseh’s Aramean concubine. Machir was the first to settle Gilead.

15He married a wife from the Huppites and Shuppites. His wife’s  name was Maacah. The name of his second son was Zelophehad. Zelophehad had only daughters.

16Maacah, Machir’s wife, had a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, whose sons were Ulam and Rakem.

17Ulam’s son was Bedan. These were the people of Gilead, descendants of Machir (son of Manasseh).

18Bedan’s sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

19Shemida’s sons were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20Ephraim’s son was Shuthelah. Shuthelah’s son was Bered. Bered’s son was Tahath. Tahath’s son was Eleadah. Eleadah’s son was Tahath.

21Tahath’s son was Zabad. Zabad’s son was Shuthelah. Ephraim’s sons Ezer and Elead were killed by the men of Gath when they came to take their livestock.

22Their father Ephraim mourned a long time, even though his brothers tried to comfort him.

23Then he slept with his wife, and she became pregnant. She gave birth to a son, and Ephraim named him Beriah [Tragedy], because tragedy had come to his home.

24Beriah’s daughter was Sheerah, who built Upper and Lower Beth Horon and Uzzen Sheerah.

25Beriah’s son was Rephah. Rephah’s son was Resheph. Resheph’s son was Telah. Telah’s son was Tahan.

26Tahan’s son was Ladan. Ladan’s son was Ammihud. Ammihud’s son was Elishama.

27Elishama’s son was Nun. Nun’s son was Joshua.

28The land and homes of Ephraim’s descendants were in Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer with its villages to the west, Shechem and its villages, and as far as Gaza and its villages.

29Next to Manasseh were Beth Shean and its villages, Taanach and its villages, Megiddo and its villages, and Dor and its villages. The descendants of Joseph, son of Israel, live in these cities.

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