1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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ASV
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
KJV
The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
Gershom, &c.--This repetition (see 1Ch 6:1) is made, as the historian here begins to trace the genealogy of the Levitical families who were not priests. The list is a long one, comprising the chiefs or heads of their several families until David's reign, who made a new and different classification of them by courses.
Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
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1 Chronicles 6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
Of Gershom:
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Exodus 6:16These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
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These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.