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And Sesan gaue his doughter vnto Iatha his seruaut to wife, which bare him Athai.

The children of Caleb the brother of Ierahmeel are, Mesa his first sonne, which is the father of Siph, and of the children of Maresa the father of Hebron.

the fifth, Saphathia of Abital: the sixte, Iethream of his wife Egla.

Iaebes was more honorable then his brethre, and his mother called him Iaebes, for she sayde: I haue borne him with trouble.

& his wife Iudi Ia bare Iered the father of Geder, Heber the father of Socho, Iekuthiel ye father of Sanoah: these are the children of Bithia the doughter of Pharao, which Mared toke.

These were potmakers, and dwelt amoge plantes and hedges, besyde the kynge in his busynes, and came & dwelt there.

Simei had sixtene sonnes and sixe doughters, and his brethren had not many childre. And all their kynred multiplied not as the children of Iuda.

The children of Ruben the first sonne of Israel: for he was the first sonne, but because he defyled his fathers bed, therfore was his first byrthrighte geuen vnto the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel, & he was not rekened to ye first byrthrighte:

for vnto Iuda which was mightie amonge his brethren, was geuen the pryncipalite before him, and the first byrthrighte vnto Ioseph.

But his brethren amonge his kynreds (wha they were rekened amonge their generacion) had Ieiel and Sacharia to their heades.

And his brother Assaph stode at his righte hande, and Assaph was the sonne of Barachia, the sonne of Simea,

but the office of Aaron and his sonnes was to kyndle the fyre vpon the altare of burntofferynges, and vpon the altare of incense, and to all the busynes in the most holy, and to make attonement for the people, acordinge as Moses ye seruaunt of God commaunded.

These are the children of Aaron: Eleasar his sonne, whose sonne was Phineas, whose sonne was Abisua,

The children of Manasses are these: Esriel, whom his concubyne Aramiel dyd beare. But (first) begat he Machir the father of Gilead.

And Machir gaue wyues vnto Hupim & Supim, & their sisters name was Maecha. His secode sonnes name was Zelaphehad. And Zelaphehad had doughters.

And Maecha ye wife of Machir bare a sonne whose name was Phares, & his brothers name was Sares, and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem.

And his sister Molecheth bare Ishud, Abieser and Mahela.

And their father Ephraim mourned for them a longe season, and his brethren came to comforte him.

And he wente in to his wife, which conceaued, and bare a sonne, whom he called Bria, because of the aduersite that was in his house.

His doughter was Seera, which builded the lower and vpper Bethoron, & Vsen Serea.