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'Sons of Levi' in the Bible

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

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.

Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;

And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.

And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:

Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

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

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

Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.

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

These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.

So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.

The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.

Give praise to the Lord, O sons of Levi: let all the worshippers of the Lord give him praise.

And the room facing north is for the priests who have the care of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who, from among the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord to do the work of his house.

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain