1 Chronicles 23:21
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi.
BSB
ASV
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
KJV
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
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Exodus 6:19The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.
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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
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1 Chronicles 23:6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, Solomon appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests…
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command…
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the Book of Moses.
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1 Chronicles 6:20Of Gershom:
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the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.