ULT 1CH chapter 6

6 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4 Eleazar fathered Phinehas. Phinehas fathered Abishua. 5 And Abishua fathered Bukki, and Bukki fathered Uzzi. 6 And Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, and Zerahiah fathered Meraioth. 7 Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub. 8 And Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Ahimaaz. 9 And Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, and Azariah fathered Johanan. 10 And Johanan fathered Azariah, he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. 11 And Azariah fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub. 12 And Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Shallum. 13 And Shallum fathered Hilkiah, and Hilkiah fathered Azariah. 14 And Azariah fathered Seraiah, and Seraiah fathered Jozadak. 15 And Jozadak went when Yahweh took into exile Judah and Jerusalem in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

16 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 17 And these, the names of the sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei. 18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these, the clans 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, Jeatherai 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 Elkanah, his son Elkanah, Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, 27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.[fn] 28 And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn and the second, Abijah. 29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son,

31 And these whom David set up over hands of song in the house of Yahweh, after the Box came to rest. 32 And they were the ones ministering to the face of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, with song until Solomon built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their judgments over their service.

33 And these, the ones standing and their sons. From the sons of the Kohathites: 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, 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 Berekiah, the son of Shimea, 40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malkijah, 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 Gershon, the son of Levi. 44 And the sons of Merari, their brothers, on the left: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluk, 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 Shemer, 47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

48 And their brothers, the Levites, were set to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. 49 And Aaron and his sons made sacrifices on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Holy of Holies and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 50 And these, 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 And these, their dwellings according to their encampments in their borders. To the sons of Aaron, to the clans of the Kohathites, for to them was the lot. 55 And they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, 56 but the field of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its pasturelands, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its pasturelands, 58 and Hilez and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands, 59 and Ashan and its pasturelands,[fn] and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands. 60 And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba and its pasturelands, and Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands.

61 And to the sons of Kohath remaining from the clan of the tribe, from the half tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. 62 And to the sons of Gershom, for their clans, 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, 13 cities. 63 To the sons of Merari, for their clans, from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, 12 cities. 64 And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their pasturelands. 65 And they gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin these cities which they called them by names.

66 And from the clans of the sons of Kohath; and there were cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim. 67 And they gave to them the cities of refuge: Shechem and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its pasturelands, 68 and Jokmeam and its pasturelands, and Beth Horon and its pasturelands, 69 and Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands. 70 And from the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its pasturelands, and Bileam and its pasturelands, for the clans of the sons of Kohath remaining.

71 To the sons of Gershon from the clans of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its pasturelands, and Ashtaroth and its pasturelands. 72 And from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and its pasturelands, Daberath and its pasturelands, 73 and Ramoth and its pasturelands, and Anem and its pasturelands. 74 And from the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its pasturelands, and Abdon and its pasturelands, 75 and Hukok and its pasturelands, and Rehob and its pasturelands. 76 And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, and Hammon and its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim and its pasturelands.

77 To the sons of Merari remaining: from the tribe of Zebulun,[fn] Rimmono and its pasturelands, Tabor and its pasturelands; 78 and from beyond the Jordan at Jericho, to the east of the Jordan from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its pasturelands, and Jahzah and its pasturelands, 79 and Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands. 80 And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its pasturelands, and Mahanaim and its pasturelands, 81 and Heshbon and its pasturelands, and Jazer and its pasturelands.

The LXX adds to the list Samuel his son.

The place name Juttah is found in the Syriac and LXX versions; also see Joshua 21:16.

The names Jokneam and Kartah are not found in the MT but are in the LXX. Compare the list in Josh. 21:34.

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