The sons of Merari:
Mahli and Mushi.
These are the clans of the Levites
according to their genealogy.

Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral houses.

Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi.
These are the Levites’ families according to their fathers:

Merari’s sons: Mahli, his son Libni,
his son Shimei, his son Uzzah,

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

Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi.
Mahli’s sons: Eleazar and Kish.

Mushi’s sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth—three.

Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi,
and from his sons, Jaaziah his son.

From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.

Mushi’s sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth.

Those were the sons of the Levites according to their ancestral houses.

Since the gracious hand of our God was on us, they brought us Sherebiah—a man of insight from the descendants of Mahli, a descendant of Levi son of Israel—along with his sons and brothers, 18 men,