Levi’s descendants
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📚The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.2 📚And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. 3 📚And the children of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu 📖, Eleazar 📖 and Ithamar. 4 📚Eleazar begot Phinehas; Phinehas begot Abishua, 5 and Abishua begot Bukki, and Bukki begot Uzzi, 6 and Uzzi begot Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begot Meraioth, 7 Meraioth begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub, 8 📚and Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Ahimaaz, 9 and Ahimaaz begot Azariah, and Azariah begot Johanan, 10 📚and Johanan begot Azariah (he it is who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem), 11 📚and Azariah begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub, 12 📚and Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Shallum, 13 📚and Shallum begot Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begot Azariah, 14 📚and Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak; 15 📚and Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
16 📚The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari. 17 📚And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 18 📚And the sons of Kohath were Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. 19 📚The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers. 20 📚Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. 22 📚The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, 24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 25 📚and the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. 26 📚As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah were Zophai his son and Nahath his son, 27 📚Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 28 📚And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah. 29 📚The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son, 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
31 📚And these are the ones whom David appointed over the service of song 📖 in the house of the LORD, after the ark 📖 had rest. 32 📚And they served before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon built the house of the LORD 📖 in Jerusalem; and then they served in their office according to their order. 33 📚And these are the ones who served with their children: of the sons of the Kohathites, Heman 📖 a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel 📖, 34 the son of Elkanah 📖, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, 35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 37 📚the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, 38 📚the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; 39 📚and his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand, Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea, 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah, 41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, 43 📚the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. 44 📚And their brethren, the sons of Merari, stood at the left hand: Ethan 📖 the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer, 47 📚the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 48 📚Their brethren also, the Levites, were appointed to all kinds of service of the tabernacle of the house of God 📖.
49 📚But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make an atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 50 📚And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53 📚Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
54 📚Now these are their dwelling places, throughout their camps, within their territories, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, according to their allotment. 55 📚And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its pasture lands around it. 56 📚But the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 📚And to the sons of Aaron they gave these cities of Judah: Hebron, the city of refuge 📖, and Libnah with its pasture lands, and Jattir and Eshtemoa, with their pasture lands, 58 📚and Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands, 59 📚and Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands; 60 📚and from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Geba with its pasture lands, and Alemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
61 📚And to the sons of Kohath, who were left of the family of that tribe, cities were given from the half tribe, from the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. 62 📚And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 63 📚To the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 64 📚And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands. 65 📚And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah and from the tribe of the children of Simeon and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.
66 📚And the rest of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities for their of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim. 67 📚And they gave to them, as cities of refuge, Shechem, in the hill country of Ephraim, with its pasture lands; they also gave Gezer with its pasture lands, 68 📚and Jokmeam with its pasture lands and Beth-Horon with its pasture lands, 69 📚and Aijalon with its pasture lands, and Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands. 70 📚And from the half tribe of Manasseh they gave Aner with its pasture lands, and Bileam with its pasture lands, for the family of the rest of the sons of Kohath.
71 📚To the sons of Gershom these were given from the family of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands; 72 📚and from the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands, 73 and Ramoth with its pasture lands and Anem with its pasture lands; 74 📚and from the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its pasture lands and Abdon with its pasture lands, 75 📚and Hukok with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; 76 📚and from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands and Hammon with its pasture lands and Kirjathaim with its pasture lands.
77 📚To the rest of the children of Merari were given from the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with its pasture lands, Tabor with its pasture lands; 78 📚and on the other side of the Jordan near Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given to them from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands and Jahzah with its pasture lands, 79 Kedemoth also with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; 80 📚and from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with its pasture lands, 81 📚and Heshbon with its pasture lands and Jazer with its pasture lands.