DIBREY HA’YAMIM 1-2

1 These were the sons of Yisra’ĕl: Re’uḇĕn, Shim’on, Lĕwi and Yahuḏah, Yissasḵar and Zeḇulun,

2 Dan, Yosĕph and Binyamin, Naphtali, Gaḏ and Ashĕr.

3 The sons of Yahuḏah: Ĕr, and Onan, and Shĕlah, the three born to him by the daughter of Shuwa, the Kena’anitess. And Ĕr, the first-born of Yahuḏah, was evil in the eyes of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and He slew him.

4 And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perets and Zeraḥ. All the sons of Yahuḏah were five.

5 The sons of Perets: Ḥetsron and Ḥamul.

6 And the sons of Zeraḥ: Zimri, and Ĕythan, and Hĕman, and Kalkol, and Dara, five of them in all.

7 And the son of Karmi was Aḵar, the troubler of Yisra’ĕl, who trespassed in that which was under the ban.

8 And the son of Ĕythan was Azaryahu.

9 And the sons of Ḥetsron who were born to him: Yeraḥme’ĕl, and Ram, and Keluḇai.

10 Ram brought forth Amminaḏaḇ, and Amminaḏaḇ brought forth Naḥshon, leader of the children of Yahuḏah;

11 Naḥshon brought forth Salma, and Salma brought forth Bo’az;

12 Bo’az brought forth Oḇĕḏ, and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yishai;

13 Yishai brought forth Eliyaḇ his first-born, and Aḇinaḏaḇ the second, and Shim’a the third,

14 Nethan’ĕl the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

15 Otsem the sixth, Dawiḏ the seventh.

16 And their sisters: Tseruyah and Aḇiḡayil. And the sons of Tseruyah: Aḇishai, and Yo’aḇ, and Asah’ĕl, three.

17 And Aḇiḡayil bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Yether the Yishma’ĕlite.

18 And Kalĕḇ son of Ḥetsron brought forth children by Azuḇah, his wife, and by Yeriyoth. Now these were her sons: Yĕsher, and Shoḇaḇ, and Ardon.

19 And Azuḇah died, and Kalĕḇ took Ephrath as his wife, who bore him Ḥur.

20 And Ḥur brought forth Uri, and Uri brought forth Betsal’ĕl.

21 And afterward Ḥetsron went in to the daughter of Maḵir the father of Gil’aḏ, whom he took when he was sixty years old. And she bore him Seḡuḇ.

22 And Seḡuḇ brought forth Ya’ir who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil’aḏ.

23 And he took from them Geshur and Aram, with the towns of Ya’ir, with Qenath and its towns, sixty towns. All these were of the sons of Maḵir the father of Gil’aḏ.

24 And after the death of Ḥetsron in Kalĕḇ Ephrathah, Ḥetsron’s wife Aḇiyah bore him Ashḥur the father of Teqowa.

25 And the sons of Yeraḥme’ĕl the first-born of Ḥetsron were: Ram the first-born, and Bunah, and Oren, and Otsem, and Aḥiyah.

26 And Yeraḥme’ĕl had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

27 And the sons of Ram, the first-born of Yeraḥme’ĕl , were Ma’ats, and Yamin, and Ĕqer.

28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Yaḏa. And the sons of Shammai: Naḏaḇ and Aḇishur.

29 And the name of the wife of Aḇishur was Aḇḥayil, and she bore him Aḥban and Moliḏ.

30 And the sons of Naḏaḇ: Seleḏ and Appayim, and Seleḏ died without children.

31 And the son of Appayim was Yishi, and the son of Yishi was Shĕshan, and the son of Shĕshan was Aḥlai.

32 And the sons of Yaḏa, the brother of Shammai: Yether and Yahonathan, and Yether died without children.

33 And the sons of Yahonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Yeraḥme’ĕl.

34 And Shĕshan had no sons, only daughters. And Shĕshan had a Mitsrite servant whose name was Yarḥa.

35 And Shĕshan gave his daughter to Yarḥa his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.

36 And Attai brought forth Nathan, and Nathan brought forth Zaḇaḏ,

37 and Zaḇaḏ brought forth Ephlal, and Ephlal brought forth Oḇĕḏ,

38 and Oḇĕḏ brought forth Yahu, and Yahu brought forth Azaryahu,

39 and Azaryahu brought forth Ḥelets, and Ḥelets brought forth El’asah,

40 and El’asah brought forth Sismai, and Sismai brought forth Shallum,

41 and Shallum brought forth Yeqamyah, and Yeqamyah brought forth Elishama.

42 And the sons of Kalĕḇ the brother of Yeraḥme’ĕl: Mĕysha his first-born, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Marĕshah the father of Ḥeḇron.

43 And the sons of Ḥeḇron: Qoraḥ, and Tappuaḥ, and Reqem, and Shema.

44 And Shema brought forth Raḥam the father of Yorqe’am, and Reqem brought forth Shammai.

45 And the son of Shammai was Ma’on, and Ma’on was the father of Bĕyth Tsur.

46 And Ĕphah, Kalĕḇ’s concubine, bore Ḥaran, and Motsa, and Gazĕz. And Ḥaran brought forth Gazĕz.

47 And the sons of Yahdai: Reḡem, and Yotham, and Gĕyshan, and Pelet, and Ĕphah, and Sha’aph.

48 Ma’aḵah, Kalĕḇ’s concubine, bore Sheḇer and Tirḥanah.

49 And she bore Sha’aph the father of Maḏmannah, Shewa the father of Maḵbĕna and the father of Giḇ’a. And the daughter of Kalĕḇ was Aḵsah.

50 These were the descendants of Kalĕḇ: The sons of Ḥur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shoḇal the father of Qiryath Ye’arim,

51 Salma the father of Bĕyth Leḥem, Ḥarĕph the father of Bĕyth Gaḏer.

52 And Shoḇal the father of Qiryath Ye’arim had descendants: Haro’eh, half of the Menuḥothites.

53 And the clans of Qiryath Ye’arim: the Yithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Tsor’athites and the Eshta’olites.

54 The sons of Salma: Bĕyth Leḥem, the Netophathites, Atroth Bĕyth Yo’aḇ, and half of the Menaḥtites, and the Tsor’ites.

55 And the clans of the scribes who dwelt at Yaḇĕts: the Tirathites, the Shim’athites, the Suḵathites. These were the Qĕynites who came from Ḥammath, the father of the house of Rĕḵaḇ.