1 Chronicles 6:1

Levi’s Descendants

6:1 (5:27) 1  The sons of Levi:

Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:16

6:16 (6:1) 2  The sons of Levi:

Gershom, 3  Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:43

6:43 son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.

1 Chronicles 23:14

23:14 The descendants of Moses the man of God were considered Levites. 4 

1 Chronicles 2:1

Israel’s Descendants

2:1 These were the sons of Israel: 5 

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Issachar and Zebulun;

1 Chronicles 6:38

6:38 son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel.

1 Chronicles 6:47

6:47 son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

1 Chronicles 9:18

9:18 he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

1 Chronicles 12:26

12:26 From Levi there were 4,600.

1 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 Now Joab 6  did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.

1 Chronicles 23:6

23:6 David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 24:20

Remaining Levites

24:20 The rest of the Levites included: 7 

Shubael 8  from the sons of Amram,

Jehdeiah from the sons of Shubael,

1 Chronicles 23:24

23:24 These were the descendants of Levi according to their families, that is, the leaders of families as counted and individually listed who carried out assigned tasks in the Lord’s temple and were twenty years old and up. 9 

1 sn Beginning with 6:1, the verse numbers through 6:81 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 6:1 ET = 5:27 HT, 6:2 ET = 5:28 HT, 6:16 ET = 6:1 HT, etc., through 6:81 ET = 6:66 HT. Beginning with 7:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

2 sn Chapter 6 of 1 Chr begins here in the Hebrew text; 6:16-81 ET = 6:1-66 HT. See the note at 6:1.

3 tn The name “Gershom” (also in vv. 17, 20, 43, 62, 71) appears as “Gershon” in 1 Chr 6:1.

3 tn Heb “and Moses the man of God, his sons were called to the tribe of Levi.”

4 tn The groupings in the list that follows, as well as the conjunctions (vav-consecutives in Hebrew), reflect those of the Hebrew text.

5 tn Heb “he”; the proper name (“Joab”) has been substituted for the pronoun here for stylistic reasons; the proper name occurs at the end of the verse in the Hebrew text, where it has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation.

6 tn Heb “Belonging to the rest of the sons of Levi.”

7 tn This appears to be a variant of the name Shebuel (cf. 1 Chr 23:16 and 26:24).

7 tn Heb “these were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, according to their numberings, by number of names, according to their heads, doer[s] of the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from a son of twenty years and upwards.”