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Bible in Basic English

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

New American Standard Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

King James Version

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Holman Bible

Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

International Standard Version

David divided them into divisions based on Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, Levi's sons.

A Conservative Version

And David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

American Standard Version

And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Amplified

And David organized them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Darby Translation

And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Julia Smith Translation

And David will divide them into divisions to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

King James 2000

And David divided them into divisions among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And David organized them [in] divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Modern King James verseion

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And David put an order among the children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The Emphasized Bible

And David divided them into courses, - pertaining to the sons of Levi, to Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Webster

And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

World English Bible

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Youngs Literal Translation

And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And David
דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

מחלקת 
Machaloqeth 
Usage: 42

of Levi
לוי 
Leviy 
Usage: 66

גּרשׁום גּרשׁון 
Ger@shown 
Usage: 30

קהת 
Q@hath 
Usage: 32

Context Readings

David Organizes The Levites

5 Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise. 6 And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.


Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:1

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 8:14

And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.

1 Chronicles 6:16

The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 29:25

Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.

Ezra 6:18

And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.

Exodus 6:16-24

And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

Numbers 26:57-58

These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

1 Chronicles 24:1

Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 26:1

For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.

2 Chronicles 31:2

Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.

2 Chronicles 35:10

So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

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