“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

“Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.

So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,

those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630.

they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it.

The land must be divided by lot; and they will inherit in accordance with the names of their ancestral tribes.

and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;

“If a young woman who is still living in her father’s house makes a vow to the Lord or places herself under an obligation,

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.

my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.

God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.

Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. Samson hosted a party there, for this was customary for bridegrooms to do.

David was going back and forth from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

Saul retained David on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

Jonathan responded to his father Saul, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!