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The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, --It firstborn; but when he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, son of Israel, so howbeit not to write their first-born; |
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For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and the leader of it, but the birthright [transferred] to Joseph. |
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The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. |
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Joel's sons: Shemaiah, his son; his son Gog, his son Shimei, |
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his son Micah, his son Reaiah, his son Baal, |
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Beerah his son, which led to Tilgathpilneser prisoner, the king of Assyria. He [was] prince of the Reubenites. |
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And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their list, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, |
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and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. Who dwelt in Aroer to Nebo and Baal-Meon; |
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And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. |
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In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead. |
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The sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan to Salecah: |
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in Bashan, Joel the chief, Shapham the second, then Janai and Shaphat. |
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And their brethren of their fathers were: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, IORAS, Jakan, Zia, and Eber. |
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These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Iaroaha, the son of Gilead, son of Michael, the son of Ieshishaya son Iahdo, son of Buz. |
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Ahi the son of Avdiila, the son of Guni, [is] the head of some sort. |
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They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. |
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They are all listed in the days of Jotham king of Judah and Jeroboam king of Israel.
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The sons of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty going out to war. |
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And they made war with the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. |
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And has filed it helped against them, and were committed into their hands the Hagrites and all that they did, because they were during the battle cry to God, and he heard them, because they trusted in Him. |
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And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand human souls, |
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because many fell slain, because of the war was of God. And they lived in their place until the captivity. |
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The descendants of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon; and there were many. |
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And the head of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah and Iagdiil, powerful men, famous men, heads of their birth. |
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But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them, |
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the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried the Reubenites and Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Ara, and to the river Gozan, - [where they ] till today. |
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