1. These are the Bnei Yisroel: Reuven, Shim'on, Levi, and Yehudah, Yissakhar, and Zevulun,
2. Dan, Yosef, and Binyamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
3. The Bnei Yehudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, which three were born unto him of Bat-Shua the Kanaanit. And Er, the bechor of Yehudah, was rah in the eyes of Hashem; and He put him to death.
4. And Tamar his kallah (daughter-in-law) bore him Peretz and Zerach. All the Bnei Yehudah were five.
5. The Bnei Peretz: Chetzron, and Chamul.
6. And the Bnei Zerach; Zimri, and Eitan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, five of them in all.
7. And the Bnei Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Yisroel, who transgressed the cherem.
8. And the Bnei Eitan; Azaryah.
9. The Bnei Chetzron also, that were born unto him: Yerachme'el, and Ram, and Keluvai.
10. And Ram fathered Amminadav; and Amminadav fathered Nachshon Nasi Bnei Yehudah;
11. And Nachshon fathered Salma; Salma fathered Boaz,
12. And Boaz fathered Oved, and Oved fathered Yishai,
13. And Yishai fathered his bechor Eliav, and Avinadav the second, and Shimma the third,
14. Netanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,