Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
Of sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred and twenty.
of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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The descendants of Merari:
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
