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1 Chronicles  Chapter 1    Back    Next

{1:1} Adam
, Seth, Enosh,

{1:2} Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared
,

{1:3} Enoch
, Methuselah
, Lamech
,

{1:4} Noah, Shem, Ham
, and Japheth
.

{1:5} The sons of Japheth: Gomer
, and Magog
, and Madai
, and Javan
, and Tubal, and Meshech
, and Tiras.

{1:6} The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz
, and Diphath, and Togarmah.

{1:7} The sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim
, and Rodanim.

{1:8} The sons of Ham: Cush
, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan
.

{1:9} The sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah
, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan
.

{1:10} Cush became the father
of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth
.

{1:11} Mizraim became the father of Ludim
, and Anamim
, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

{1:12} and Pathrusim, and Casluhim
(where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim
.

{1:13} Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn
, and Heth,

{1:14} and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite
,

{1:15} and the Hivite, and the Arkite
, and the Sinite,

{1:16} and the Arvadite
, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite
.

{1:17} The sons of Shem: Elam
, and Asshur
, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram
, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

{1:18} Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber
.

{1:19} To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's
name was Joktan
.

{1:20} Joktan became the father of Almodad
, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth
, and Jerah,

{1:21} and Hadoram
, and Uzal, and Diklah,

{1:22} and Ebal
, and Abimael
, and Sheba,

{1:23} and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab
. All these were the sons of Joktan.

{1:24} Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

{1:25} Eber, Peleg, Reu,

{1:26} Serug, Nahor, Terah,

{1:27} Abram
(the same is Abraham
).

{1:28} The sons of Abraham: Isaac
, and Ishmael
.

{1:29} These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar
, and Adbeel
, and Mibsam
,

{1:30} Mishma
, and Dumah
, Massa
, Hadad
, and Tema,

{1:31} Jetur
, Naphish, and Kedemah
. These are the sons of Ishmael.

{1:32} The sons of Keturah
, Abraham's concubine
: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan
, and Medan
, and Midian
, and Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

{1:33} The sons of Midian: Ephah
, and Epher
, and Hanoch, and Abida
, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.

{1:34} Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau
, and Israel
.

{1:35} The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush
, and Jalam, and Korah
.

{1:36} The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz
, and Timna, and Amalek
.

{1:37} The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

{1:38} The sons of Seir: Lotan
, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah
, and Dishon, and Ezer
, and Dishan
.

{1:39} The sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

{1:40} The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath
, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.

{1:41} The sons of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

{1:42} The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan
. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran
.

{1:43} Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom
, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela
the son of Beor
; and the name of his city was Dinhabah
.

{1:44} Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah
reigned in his place.

{1:45} Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

{1:46} Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the field
of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

{1:47} Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah
reigned in his place.

{1:48} Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

{1:49} Shaul died, and Baal Hanan
the son of Achbor
reigned in his place.

{1:50} Baal Hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel
, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab
.

{1:51} Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth
,

{1:52} chief Oholibamah
, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

{1:53} chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar
,

{1:54} chief Magdiel, chief Iram
. These are the chiefs of Edom.

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