3 the sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
4 The sons of Joel; Shemai´ah his son, Gog his son, Shim´e-i his son,
5 Micah his son, Re-ai´a his son, Ba´al his son,
6 Be-e´rah his son, whom Til´gath–pilne´ser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.
7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Je-i´el, and Zechari´ah,
8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aro´er, even unto Nebo and Ba´al–me´on:
9 and eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphra´tes: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gil´e-ad.