Moses and Aaron gathered these men who had been mentioned by name.

These are Levi's descendants by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, their pegs, their ropes, and all the utensils for all their services. Assign the utensils by name to each person whose responsibility it will be to carry them.

They are to pour out my name to the Israelis while I continue to bless them."

"Tell the Israelis to take a rod one from each ancestral house, that is, one from every leader, for a total of twelve rods. Write each tribal name on his rod.

You are also to write Aaron's name on the tribe of Levi, since there is to be one rod for every leader of their ancestral tribes.

Now the name of the Israeli man who was slain, along with the Midianite woman, was Salu's son Zimri, a leader from the tribe of Simeon.

(The name of Asher's daughter was Serah.)

Why are you going to eliminate the name of our father from his family, just because he had no son? Give us a possession from among our father's relatives."