27aThe sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 28The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 29The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 30Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua, 31Abishua begot Bukki, Bukki begot Uzzi, 32Uzzi begot Zerahiah, Zerahiah begot Meraioth, 33Meraioth begot Amariah, Amariah begot Ahitub, 34Ahitub begot Zadok, Zadok begot Ahimaaz, 35Ahimaaz begot Azariah, Azariah begot Johanan, 36and Johanan begot Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the House that Solomon built in Jerusalem). 37Azariah begot Amariah, Amariah begot Ahitub, 38Ahitub begot Zadok, Zadok begot Shallum, 39Shallum begot Hilkiah, Hilkiah begot Azariah, 40Azariah begot Seraiah, Seraiah begot Jehozadak; 41and Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD exiled Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
6 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 2And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 3The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 4The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These were the families of the Levites according to their clans. 5Of Gershom: his son Libni, his son Jahath, his son Zimmah, 6his son Joah, his son Iddo, his son Zerah, his son Jeatherai. 7The sons of Kohath: his son Amminadab, his son Korah, his son Assir, 8his son Elkanah, his son Ebiasaph, his son Assir, 9his son Tahath, his son Uriel, his son Uzziah, and his son Shaul. 10The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, 11his son Elkanah, his son Zophai, his son Nahath, 12his son Eliab, his son Jeroham, his son Elkanah. 13The sons of Samuel: his first-born a-Vashni, and-a Abijah. 14The sons of Merari: Mahli, his son Libni, his son Shimei, his son Uzzah, 15his son Shimea, his son Haggiah, and his son Asaiah.
16These were appointed by David to be in charge of song in the House of the LORD, from the time the Ark came to rest. 17They served at the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting with song until Solomon built the House of the LORD in Jerusalem; and they carried out their duties as prescribed for them. 18Those were the appointed men; and their sons were: the Kohathites: Heman the singer, son of Joel son of Samuel 19son of Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Eliel son of Toah 20son of Zuph son of Elkanah son of Mahath son of Amasai 21son of Elkanah son of Joel son of Azariah son of Zephaniah 22son of Tahath son of Assir son of Ebiasaph son of Korah 23son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi son of Israel; 24and his kinsman Asaph, who stood on his right, namely, Asaph son of Berechiah son of Shimea 25son of Michael son of Baaseiah son of Malchijah 26son of Ethni son of Zerah son of Adaiah 27son of Ethan son of Zimmah son of Shimei 28son of Jahath son of Gershom son of Levi.
29On the left were their kinsmen: the sons of Merari: Ethan son of Kishi son of Abdi son of Malluch 30son of Hashabiah son of Amaziah son of Hilkiah 31son of Amzi son of Bani son of Shemer 32son of Mahli son of Mushi son of Merari son of Levi; 33and their kinsmen the Levites were appointed for all the service of the Tabernacle of the House of God.
34But Aaron and his sons made offerings upon the altar of burnt offering and upon the altar of incense, performing all the tasks of the most holy place, to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 35These are the sons of Aaron: his son Eleazar, his son Phinehas, his son Abishua, 36his son Bukki, his son Uzzi, his son Zerahiah, 37his son Meraioth, his son Amariah, his son Ahitub, 38his son Zadok, his son Ahimaaz. 39bThese are their dwelling-places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Kohathites, for theirs was the [first] lot; 40they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, 41but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.42To the sons of Aaron they gave the citiesc of refuge: Hebron and Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir and Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, 43Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, 44Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands. 45From the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen.
46To the remaining Kohathites were given by lot out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 47To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan. 48To the Merarites according to their families were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. 49So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. 50They gave them by lot out of the tribe of the Judahites these cities that are mentioned by name, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of the Benjaminites.
51And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. 52They gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, 53Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, 54Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands; 55and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the families of the Kohathites.
56To the Gershomites; out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands; 57and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Dobrath with its pasturelands, 58Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands; 59out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, 60Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands; 61and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands; Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. 62To the rest of the Merarites, out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands; 63and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands, 64Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands; 65and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, 66Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.
7 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four. 2The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, Shemuel, chiefs of their clans, men of substance according to their lines; their number in the days of David was 22,600. 3The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah—five. All of them were chiefs. 4And together with them, by their lines, according to their clans, were units of the fighting force, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons. 5Their kinsmen belonging to all the families of Issachar were in all 87,000 men of substance; they were all registered by genealogy.
6[The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael—three. 7The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri—five, chiefs of clans, men of substance, registered by genealogy—22,034. 8The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher; 9and they were registered by genealogy according to their lines, as chiefs of their clans, men of substance—20,200. 10The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. 11All these were the sons of Jediael, chiefs of the clans, men of substance— 17,200, who made up the fighting force. 12And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim the sons of Aher.
13The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah.
14The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead. 15And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad; and Zelophehad had daughters. 16And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. 17The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh. 18And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. 19The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
20The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, his son Bered, his son Tahath, his son Eleadah, his son Tahath, 21his son Zabad, his son Shuthelah, also Ezer and Elead. The men of Gath, born in the land, killed them because they had gone down to take their cattle. 22And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. 23He cohabited with his wife, who conceived and bore a son; and she named him Beriah, because it occurred when there was misfortunea in his house. 24His daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. 25His son Rephah, his son Resheph, his son Telah, his son Tahan, 26his son Ladan, his son Ammihud, his son Elishama, 27his son Non, his son Joshua. 28Their
