KJV King James Version
[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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1 Chronicles 7:6
[The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The three sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael.
WEB World English Bible
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
ASV American Standard Version
The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 7
3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, [were] bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand [men]: for they had many wives and sons.
5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.
6 [The sons] of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of [their] fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are] the sons of Becher.
9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [was] twenty thousand and two hundred.
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Genesis 46:21And the sons of Benjamin [were] Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.1 Chronicles 8:1-40Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,Numbers 26:38-41The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:1 Chronicles 7:10-11The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.
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