KJV King James Version
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
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1 Chronicles 4:27
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah.
WEB World English Bible
Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, neither did all their family multiply like the children of Judah.
ASV American Standard Version
And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And to Shimei are sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 4
24 The sons of Simeon [were], Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, [and] Shaul:
25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
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וּלְשִׁמְעִ֞יH8096 · shim.iShimeiבָּנִ֨יםH1121 · benson: childשִׁשָּׁ֤הH8337 · sheshsixעָשָׂר֙H6240 · a.sartenוּבָנ֣וֹתH1323 · batdaughterשֵׁ֔שׁH8337 · sheshsixוּלְאֶחָ֕יוH251 · achbrother: male-siblingאֵ֖יןH369 · a.yinnothingבָּנִ֣יםH1121 · benson: childרַבִּ֑יםH7227 · ravmanyוְכֹל֙H3605 · kolallמִשְׁפַּחְתָּ֔םH4940 · mish.pa.chahfamilyלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotהִרְבּ֖וּH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyעַד־H5704 · adtillבְּנֵ֥יH1121 · benson: childיְהוּדָֽה׃ סH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudah
Cross-references
Numbers 26:14These [are] the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.Numbers 2:13And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.Numbers 26:22These [are] the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.Numbers 2:4And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
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