diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
index 0a30809b601..80bfe5f558c 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/Bytes.java
@@ -1806,6 +1806,24 @@ public class Bytes implements Comparable<Bytes> {
     return result;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @param arrays all the arrays to concatenate together.
+   * @return New array made from the concatenation of the given arrays.
+   */
+  public static byte [] add(final byte [][] arrays) {
+    int length = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < arrays.length; i++) {
+      length += arrays[i].length;
+    }
+    byte [] result = new byte[length];
+    int index = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < arrays.length; i++) {
+      System.arraycopy(arrays[i], 0, result, index, arrays[i].length);
+      index += arrays[i].length;
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
   /**
    * @param a array
    * @param length amount of bytes to grab
diff --git a/hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestBytes.java b/hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestBytes.java
index eb5e4537838..aa13223cf0c 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestBytes.java
+++ b/hbase-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/TestBytes.java
@@ -49,6 +49,19 @@ public class TestBytes extends TestCase {
     assertNotNull(ee);
   }
 
+  public void testAdd () throws Exception {
+    byte[] a = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
+    byte[] b = {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1};
+    byte[] c = {2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2};
+    byte[] d = {3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3};
+    byte[] result1 = Bytes.add (a, b, c);
+    byte[] result2 = Bytes.add (new byte[][] {a, b, c});
+    assertEquals(0, Bytes.compareTo(result1, result2));
+    byte[] result4 = Bytes.add (result1, d);
+    byte[] result5 = Bytes.add (new byte[][] {result1, d});
+    assertEquals(0, Bytes.compareTo(result1, result2));
+  }
+
   public void testSplit() throws Exception {
     byte [] lowest = Bytes.toBytes("AAA");
     byte [] middle = Bytes.toBytes("CCC");