'Families' in the Bible

and the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

The families of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. Those are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath, and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These were the families of the Zorathites.

Koz became the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers at Beth-ashbea;

these mentioned by name were leaders in their families; and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.

His kinsmen by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders. To the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, were given from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher, the tribe of Naphtali, and the tribe of Manasseh, thirteen cities in Bashan.

To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Their relatives among all the families of Issachar were mighty men of valor, enrolled by genealogy, in all 87,000.

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