Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

1 Chronicles 7:20-33 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

20. These were the names of Ephraim’s descendants. Ephraim’s son was Shuthelah. Shuthelah’s son was Bered. Bered’s son was Tahath.

21. Tahath’s son was Eleadah. Eleadah’s son was Tahath. Tahath’s son was Zabad. Zabad’s son was Shuthelah. Some men who grew up in the city of Gath killed Ezer and Elead. This happened because Ezer and Elead went there to steal cattle and sheep from those men in Gath.

22. Ephraim was the father of Ezer and Elead. He cried for many days because Ezer and Elead were dead. Ephraim’s family came to comfort him.

23. Then Ephraim had sexual relations with his wife. She became pregnant and had a son. Ephraim named this new son Beriah because something bad had happened to his family.

24. Ephraim’s daughter was Sheerah. Sheerah built Lower Beth Horon and Upper Beth Horon and Lower Uzzen Sheerah and Upper Uzzen Sheerah.

25. Rephah was Ephraim’s son. Resheph was Rephah’s son. Telah was Resheph’s son. Tahan was Telah’s son.

26. Ladan was Tahan’s son. Ammihud was Ladan’s son. Elishama was Ammihud’s son.

27. Nun was Elishama’s son. Joshua was Nun’s son.

28. These are the cities and lands where Ephraim’s descendants lived: Bethel and the villages near it, Naaran to the east, Gezer and the villages near it on the west, and Shechem and the villages near it all the way to Ayyah and the villages near it.

29. Along the borders of Manasseh’s land were the towns of Beth Shan, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, and the small towns near them. The descendants of Joseph lived in these towns. Joseph was the son of Israel.

30. Asher’s sons were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah. Their sister was named Serah.

31. Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malkiel. Malkiel was Birzaith’s father.

32. Heber was the father of Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and of their sister Shua.

33. Japhlet’s sons were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were Japhlet’s children.