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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek , to the borders of the Amorites:

Ezrah’s sons were Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. Mered was the father of Miriam , Shammai, and Ishbah. Ishbah was the father of Eshtemoa . Mered had a wife from Egypt . She had Jered, Heber , and Jekuthiel. Jered was Gedor ’s father. Heber was Soco ’s father. And Jekuthiel was Zanoah ’s father. These were the sons of Bithiah. Bithiah was Pharaoh’s daughter. She was Mered’s wife from Egypt .

Of the sons of Merari ; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

Shelah was Judah ’s son. Shelah ’s sons were Er, Laadah , Jokim , the men from Cozeba , Joash , and Saraph . Er was the father of Lecah. Laadah was the father of Mareshah and the tribes of linen workers at Beth Ashbea. Joash and Saraph married Moabite women. Then they went back to Bethlehem . The writings about this family are very old.

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

Seraiah the son of Hilkiah , the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok , the son of Meraioth , the son of Ahitub , was the ruler of the house of God.

Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari , throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor , and Heber the father of Soco , and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah . And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

Declare ye it not at Gath , weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah .

The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

And Meonothai begat Ophrah : and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah ,

And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsha, Cherub , Addan, and Immer : but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel :

And the sons of Micah were, Pithon , and Melech , and Tarea, and Ahaz .

Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah , even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah , and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

The children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephusim,