Levi

¹The sons of Levi:

²The sons of Kohath:

³The children of Amram:

The sons of Aaron:

¹⁶The sons of Levi:

¹⁷These are the names of the sons of Gershon:

¹⁸The sons of Kohath:

¹⁹The sons of Merari:

These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:

²⁰Of Gershon:

²²The descendants of Kohath:

²⁵The descendants of Elkanah:

²⁸The sons of Samuel:

²⁹The descendants of Merari:

³¹These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the Lord after the ark came to rest there.

³²They ministered with music before the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, until Solomon built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. They performed their duties according to the regulations laid down for them.

³³Here are the men who served, together with their sons:

From the Kohathites:

³⁹and Heman’s associate Asaph, who served at his right hand:

⁴⁴and from their associates, the Merarites, at his left hand:

⁴⁸Their fellow Levites were assigned to all the other duties of the tabernacle, the house of God.

⁴⁹But Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense in connection with all that was done in the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

⁵⁰These were the descendants of Aaron:

⁵⁴These were the locations of their settlements allotted as their territory (they were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clan, because the first lot was for them):

⁶¹The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of half the tribe of Manasseh.

⁶²The descendants of Gershon, clan by clan, were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali, and from the part of the tribe of Manasseh that is in Bashan.

⁶³The descendants of Merari, clan by clan, were allotted twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.

⁶⁴So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns and their pasturelands.

⁶⁵From the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin they allotted the previously named towns.

⁶⁶Some of the Kohathite clans were given as their territory towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

From the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh

⁷²from the tribe of Issachar

⁷⁴from the tribe of Asher

⁷⁶and from the tribe of Naphtali

⁷⁸from the tribe of Reuben across the Jordan east of Jericho

⁸⁰and from the tribe of Gad