1 Chronicles 7: Issachar, Benjamin, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim and Asher

In plain English: The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimron: four.

In plain English: The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Shemuel. They were heads of their fathers' houses, of Tola, mighty men of valor (or: strength) in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

In plain English: The son of Uzzi was Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah were Michael, Obadiah, Joel and Isshiah: five, all of them chief men.

In plain English: With them, by their generations and by their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

In plain English: Their brothers among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor. Listed in all by genealogy, they were eighty-seven thousand.

In plain English: The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher and Jediael: three.

In plain English: The sons of Bela were Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth and Iri: five. They were heads of fathers' houses and mighty men of valor, and they were listed by genealogy: twenty-two thousand and thirty-four.

In plain English: The sons of Becher were Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

In plain English: They were listed by genealogy, after their generations, as heads of their fathers' houses and mighty men of valor: twenty thousand two hundred.

In plain English: The son of Jediael was Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan were Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish and Ahishahar.

In plain English: All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' households, mighty men of valor: seventeen thousand two hundred, who were able to go out in the army for war.

In plain English: So were Shuppim and Huppim, the sons of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher (or, as this Bible has it: Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher).

Good to know: In the Hebrew there is no "and" before "the sons of Ir", before "Hushim" or before "the sons of Aher". So the names can be read in pairs: Shuppim and Huppim as the sons of Ir, and Hushim as the sons of Aher. Or they can be read as separate entries, as this Bible has it. The verse gives no more.

In plain English: The sons of Naphtali were Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum, and the sons of Bilhah (or: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah).

Good to know: In the Hebrew there is no "and" before "the sons of Bilhah". So it can name Bilhah's sons as a further group after the four, as this Bible has it, or say that the four named were the sons of Bilhah. The verse gives no more.

In plain English: The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir, the father of Gilead.

In plain English: Machir took a wife of (or: for) Huppim and Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah (or, as this Bible has it: whose sister's name was Maacah). The name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.

Good to know: The Hebrew leaves three things open. The small word before "Huppim" and before "Shuppim" is the one that usually means "for" or "to", so the verse can read "took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim" as well as "took a wife of them". "His sister" does not say whose sister: Machir's, or one of the two named. And "the second" does not say second of what. The verse gives no more.

In plain English: Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son and named him Peresh. His brother's name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

In plain English: The son of Ulam was Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

In plain English: His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer and Mahlah.

In plain English: The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi and Aniam.

In plain English: The sons of Ephraim were Shuthelah, Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,

In plain English: his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah, and Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath, who were born in the land, killed Ezer and Elead, because they came down to take away their livestock.

In plain English: Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

In plain English: He went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. He named him Beriah, because there was trouble (or: evil) with his house.

The Hebrew words: The text gives the reason for the name. "Beriah" is beri'ah, and "trouble" is ra'ah, which the dictionary gives under ra as "bad or ... evil (natural or moral)". The two words sound alike. Read as "trouble", the house was in distress; read as "evil", something bad had happened in it. The verse does not say what.

In plain English: His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

In plain English: Rephah was his son, Resheph (this Bible: his son), Telah his son, Tahan his son,

Good to know: In the Hebrew, "his son" follows Rephah, Telah and Tahan, but not Resheph. This Bible reads "Resheph his son". The Hebrew words themselves do not say how Resheph is related to Rephah and Telah.

In plain English: Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

In plain English: Nun his son, and Joshua his son.

In plain English: Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, Naaran to the east, and Gezer with its towns to the west; also Shechem and its towns, as far as Azzah and its towns;

In plain English: and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. The children of Joseph the son of Israel lived in these.

In plain English: The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi and Beriah. Serah was their sister.

In plain English: The sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

In plain English: Heber became the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.

In plain English: The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

In plain English: The sons of Shemer were Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.

In plain English: The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

In plain English: The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah,

In plain English: Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

In plain English: The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

In plain English: The sons of Ulla were Arah, Hanniel and Rizia.

In plain English: All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them listed by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.