Why would two brothers be counted as a single family? The answer comes in 1 Chronicles 23, where Levites are numbered for service: Jeush and Beriah “had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.” This Beriah, a son of Shimei, shares a name with an earlier one, a son of Asher, whose sons Heber and Malchiel appear in Genesis 46 and Numbers 26 as the “family of the Beriites.” The name is the same, though the men are not. Start with Genesis 46:17 for the older Beriah.
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And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
A gift, or in evil. (1.) One of Asher’s four sons, and father of Heber (Gen. 46:17).
(2.) A son of Ephraim (1 Chr. 7:20-23), born after the slaughter of his brothers, and so called by his father “because it went evil with his house” at that time.
(3.) A Benjamite who with his brother Shema founded Ajalon and expelled the Gittites (1 Chr. 8:13).
William Smith, 1884
(in evil, or a gift).
(1.) A son of Asher. (Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44,45)
(2.) A son of Ephraim. (1 Chronicles 7:20-23)
(3.) A Benjamite. (1 Chronicles 8:13,16)
(4.) A Levite. (1 Chronicles 23:10,11)