Numbers 3:15

3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans ¹  and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” ² 

Numbers 3:20

3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Numbers 4:38

4:38 Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 4:42

4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,

Numbers 4:46

4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 17:2-3

17:2 “Speak to the Israelites, and receive from them a staff from each tribe, ³  one from every tribal leader, ⁴  twelve staffs; you must write each man’s name on his staff. 17:3 You must write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for one staff is for the head of every tribe. ⁵ 

Ezra 2:59

2:59 These are the ones that came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addon, and Immer (although they were unable to certify ⁶  their family connection ⁷  or their ancestry, ⁸  as to whether they really were from Israel):

¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 20.

² tn Heb “you are to/shall number them.”

³ tn Heb “receive from them a rod, a rod from the house of a father.”

⁴ tn Heb “from every leader of them according to their fathers’ house.”

⁵ tn Heb “one rod for the head of their fathers’ house.”

⁶ tn Heb “relate.”

⁷ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

⁸ tn Heb “their seed.”