Moff 1 CHR Chapter 6

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6 The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; 3 Amram's children were Aaron, Moses, and Miriam; and Aaron's sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar was the father of Phinehas, 5 Phinehas of Abishua, Abishua of Bukki, Bukki of Uzzi, 6 Uzzi of Zerahiah, Zerahiah of Meraioth, 7 Meraioth of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub, 8 Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Ahimaaz, 9 Ahimaaz of Azariah, Azariah of Johanan, 10 Johanan of Azariah (it was he who officiated as priest in Solomon's temple at Jerusalem),

11 Azariah of Amariah, Amariah of Ahitub, 12 Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum, 13 Shallum of Hilkiah, Hilkiah of Azariah, 14 Azariah of Seraiah, and Seraiah of Jehozadak; 15 Jehozadak went into exile when the Eternal made Nebuchadnezzar carry off the men of Judah and Jerusalem.

16 The sons of Levi were Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17 Libni and Shimei, these are the names of Gershom's sons; 18 Kohath's sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; 19 Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. Such were the families of the Levites, one by one. 20 From Gershom sprang Libni, from Libni Jahath, from Jahath Zimmah, 21 from Zimmah Joah, from Joah lddo, from Iddo Zerah, and from Zerah Jeatherai.

22 The line of descent from Kohath was Amminadab, Korah, Assir, 23 Elkanah, Ebiasaph, Assir, 24 Tahath, Uriel, Uzziah, and Shaul. 25 The line of descent from Elkanah was Amasai, Ahimoth, 26 Elkanah, Zophai, Nahath, 27 Eliab, Jeroham, Elkanah, 28 and Samuel. Samuel's sons were Joel his eldest and Abiah his second. 29 The line of descent from Merari was Mahli, Libni, Shimei, Uzzah, 30 Shimea, Haggiah, and Asaiah.

31 Here are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the temple of the Eternal, after the ark was settled there; 32 they carried on the service of song at the Trysting tent, till Solomon had built the temple of the Eternal at Jerusalem, fulfilling their office in due order. 33 Those in office and their descendants were as follows: to the Kohathites belonged Heman the 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, 35 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 his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand, was Asaph the son of Bereehiah, the son of Shimea, 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 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 At their left hand stood their brothers, the sons of Merari, represented by Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amazlah, the son of Hilkiah, 46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 48 (Their fellow-Levites were put in charge of all the duties of the tent of God's house. 49 But Aaron and his sons officiated at the altar of burnt-offering and at the altar of incense, doing all that was required in the most sacred place, and making expiation for Israel, in keeping with all the orders issued by Moses the servant of God.) 50 The line of Aaron's descendants was Eleazar, Phinehas, Abishua, 51 Bukki, Uzzi, Zerahiah, 52 Meraioth, Amariah, Ahitub, 53 Zadok, and Ahimaaz.

54 The following are their residences, as they were settled within the boundaries of the land. To the descendants of Aaron who belonged to the Kohathite family--for theirs was the first lot-- 55 were assigned Hebron and its open lands in Judah, 56 though the fields and villages belonging to the town were assigned to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57 To the descendants of Aaron were assigned Hebron, the town of refuge, Libnah with its open lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its open lands, 58 Hilen with its open lands, Debir with its open lands, 59 Ashan with its open lands, and Beth-shemesh with its open lands, 60 besides (from the clan of Benjamin) Geba with its open lands, Allemeth with its open lands, and Anathoth with its open lands. Thirteen towns in all they had, among their families.

61 The rest of the Kohathites had ten towns allotted to them from the families of the clans of Ephraim and of Dan and the half-clan of Manasseh. 62 The Gershomites were allotted thirteen towns for their families, from the clans of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan. 63 The Merarites were allotted twelve towns for their families, from the clans of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. 64 The Israelites allotted the Levites these towns along with their open lands. 65 (They assigned the towns now to be mentioned, from the clans of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.) 66 Some of the Kohathite families had towns allotted to them from the clan of Ephraim; 67 they were assigned the town of refuge Shechem in the highlands of Ephraim with its open lands, Gezer with its open lands, 68 Jokmeam with its open lands, Beth-horon with its open lands, 69 Aijalon with its open lands, Gathrimmon with its open lands, and-- 70 from the half-clan of Manasseh--Aner with its open lands, and Bileam with its open lands, for the rest of the Kohathite families. 71 The Gershomites were assigned, from the family of the half-clan of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its open lands, Ashtaroth with its open lands, 72 and--from the clan of Issachar--Kedesh with its open lands, Daberath with its open lands, 73 Ramoth with its open lands, Anem with its open lands, besides-- 74 from the clan of Asher--Mashal with its open lands, Abdon with its

open lands, 75 Hukok with its open lands, Rehob with its open lands, 76 and--from the clan of Naphtali--Kedesh in Galilee with its open lands, Hammon with its open lands, and Kiriathaim with its open lands. 77 To the rest of the Levites, the Merarites, were assigned, from the clan of Zebulun, Rimmono with its open lands, Tabor with its open lands, 78 and, across the Jordan at Jericho, east of the Jordan, from the clan of Reuben, Bezer in the desert with its open lands, Jahzah with its open lands, 79 Kedemoth with its open lands, and Mephaath with its open lands, 80 besides--from the clan of Gad--Ramoth in Gilead with its open lands, Mahanaim with its open lands, 81 Heshbon with its open lands, and Jazer with its open lands.

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