The Levite Clans

[16] The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. [17] And these be 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; 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.

The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.

Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.