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The sons of Reuben:
Chanoch (Enoch) and Pallo and Chetsron (Hesron) and Karmi. [; ; ]
[Here there is a pause in the story. You could say it's a "cliffhanger" – how will it turn out? Neither the Israelites nor Pharaoh listen to Moses, and he himself is on the verge of giving up, see . In the middle of the story's climax, there is a flashback showing how Moses and Aaron are the fourth generation from Jacob via the tribe of Levi. The genealogy is limited to the first three sons of Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, and Levi. The following nine sons are not relevant to showing Moses and Aaron's kinship and are not included. Jacob is also called Israel, see . In the list below, the names included in Moses and Aaron's family tree are marked in bold.]
These were the heads of their respective families.
The sons of Reuben, Israel's [Jacob's] firstborn:
Chanoch (Enoch) and Pallo,
Chetsron (Hesron) and Karmi;
these were the Reubenite families.
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the sons of Reuben:
of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites,
of Pallu, the family of the Pallites,
The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch (Enoch), Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
