1 Chronicles 6:47
the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
BSB
ASV
the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
KJV
The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
The walk7
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Numbers 10:17Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
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So Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites.
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must…
But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part…
And the LORD said to Moses,
because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
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Numbers 7:8and he gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
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The duties assigned to the sons of Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and all its equipment—all the service for these items,
This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the Tent of Meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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.