Common English Bible

1 Chronicles 7:12-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

12. The Shuppites and Huppites were Ir’s family, and the Hushites were Aher’s family.

13. Naphtali’s family: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum. These were Bilhah’s family.

14. Manasseh’s family: Asriel, to whom his Aramean secondary wife gave birth. She gave birth to Machir, Gilead’s father.

15. Machir married Huppite and Shuppite women. His sister’s name was Maacah. The second descendant’s name was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.

16. Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son and named him Peresh. His brother’s name was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem.

17. Ulam’s family: Bedan.This was the family of Gilead, Machir’s son and Manasseh’s grandson.

18. His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, Mahlah, and Shemida.

19. The members of Shemida’s family were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

20. Ephraim’s family: Shuthelah, his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath,

21. his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah, and Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath, who were born in the land, killed them when they came down to take their cattle.

22. Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

23. Ephraim had sex with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah, because misfortune had come to his house.