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Rh Shuthalites; Becher of whom cometh the Bachrites; Tahan, of whom cometh the Tahanites. The son of Shuthelah was Eran of whom cometh the Eranites; the men of Ephraim and Mt. Ephraim; Samuel the prophet was the son of Elkanah; Elkanah was the son of Jeroham, the son of Eli, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. These were the families of Ephraim, of Egypt, and the number of them was thirty-two thousand five hundred souls.—(Gen. xlvi.; Num. xxvi.; 1 Sam. i.)

The sons of Amram, and their families, by Jochebad, the daughter of Levi, his father's sister, a Canaanitish woman, borne to him in Egypt, were Aaron and Moses, and his daughter was Miriam, their sister.—(Ex. vi. 20.)

The sons of Aaron, and their families, by Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, a Canaanitish woman, were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazer and Ithamar. The son of Eleazer, by one of the daughters of Putiel, was Phinehas. These were the families of Aaron, and the number of them was twenty-three thousand males.—(Ex. vi.; Num. iii, 26.)

The sons of Moses, the man of God, and their families by Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel, Jethro or Raguel, an Ethiopian woman, were Gershom, and Eliezer, who was of the tribe of Levi.—(1 Chron. xxiii.; Ex. iii. 18; Num. x. 29; xii. 9.) The sons of Gershom, whose wife was an Egyptian woman, were Shebuel, Libni, Shimei, Jeahath, Zimmah, Joah, Iddo, Zerah and Jeaterai. Shebuel was the chief ruler of the treasure of the house of God, in Jerusalem. (1 Chron. vi. 23—25. ) The sons of Shimei, an Ethiopian, were Jahath, Zina, Jeush and Beriah; Jahath was the chief. (1 Chron. xxiii.)—And of the sons of Eliezer, Rehabiah was the chief. The sons of Rehabiah were Isshiah, Jeshaiah, Joram Zichri and Shelomith; and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem.—(1 Chron. xxvi.) These were the sons and grandsons of Moses, and Zipporah, an Ethiopian woman.