These [are] the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

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

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

son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel;

son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.

son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

And he distributed to every man of Israel, both men and women, to each [person] a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins.

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he [is] good; his loyal love [is] everlasting.

And with them [were] Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of those chosen, who were designated by name to give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love [is] everlasting.

And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [is] under tent curtains."

"Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You [are] not to build a house for me to live [in],

I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you.

But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the word of the king was repulsive to Joab.

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

But Moses the man of God [and] his sons were reckoned among the tribe of Levi

These [were] the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the {families}, according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, [who were to] do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and above.

For by the last words of David, they [are] the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and above.

And as for the remainder of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

For Levi: Hashabiah the son of Kemuel. For Aaron, Zadok.