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Efrayim their father mourned for a long time, and his kinsmen came to comfort him.

Then he had sexual relations with his wife, and she conceived and bore a son whom he called B'ri‘ah [in calamity], because his household had suffered a calamity.

His daughter was She'erah, who built upper and lower Beit-Horon and Uzen-She'erah.

Refach was his son, and Reshef, then his son Telach, his son Tachan

his son La‘dan, his son ‘Ammihud, his son Elishama,

his son Nun and his son Y'hoshua.

The sons of his brother Helem were: Zofach, Yimnah, Shelesh and ‘Amal.

Binyamin fathered Bela his firstborn son; his second, Ashbel; his third, Achrach;

his fourth, Nochah; and his fifth, Rafa.

Shacharayim fathered children on the plains of Mo'av; after sending away his wives Hushim and Ba‘ara,

it was through his wife Hodesh that he fathered: Yovav, Tzivya, Mesha, Malkam,

Ye‘utz, Sokhya and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of clans.

and his firstborn son ‘Avdon, Tzur, Kish, Ba‘al, Nadav,

and Motza fathered Bin‘a. His son was Rafah, his son was El‘asah and his son was Atzel.

The sons of his brother ‘Eshek: Ulam his firstborn, Ye‘ush the second and Elifelet the third.

Of the Shiloni: ‘Asayah the firstborn and his sons.

Shalum the son of Kore the son of Evyasaf the son of Korach and his kinsmen from his father's clan the Korchim were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tent. Their ancestors had been in charge of the camp of Adonai , keepers of the entryway.

In Giv‘on lived the father of Giv‘on, Ye‘i'el, whose his wife's name was Ma‘akhah;

and his firstborn son ‘Avdon, Tzur, Kish, Ba‘al, Ner, Nadav,

and Motza fathered Bin‘a. His son was Rafah, his son El‘asah and his son Atzel.