Sons of Levi

¹The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.[#6:1 Ch 5:27 in Heb; #6:1 In v 16, Gershom]

³¹Now these are those whom David caused to stand over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after the ark rested there .

³²And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem; and they stood for their service according to their custom.

³³These are those who stood for service with their sons:

⁴⁸Their relatives the Levites were given over unto all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.[#6:48 Lit brothers]

⁴⁹But Aaron and his sons offered offerings up in smoke on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the Holy of Holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

⁵⁰These are the sons of Aaron:

⁵⁴Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders. To the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for the lot was theirs first ),

⁵⁵to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, with its pasture lands all around it;

⁵⁶but the fields of the city and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

⁵⁷To the sons of Aaron they gave the following cities of refuge:

⁶⁴So the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their pasture lands.

⁶⁵They also gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned here by name.

⁶⁶Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁷And they gave to them the following cities of refuge:

⁷¹To the sons of Gershom were given , from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh:

⁷⁷To the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites , were given , from the tribe of Zebulun: