And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖、米拉利。

利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖、米拉利。

利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖、米拉利。

利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖和米拉利。

利未的儿子是革顺、哥辖和米拉利。

利未的儿子革顺、哥辖、米拉利；

利未的兒子是革順、哥轄、米拉利。

利未的兒子是革順、哥轄、米拉利。

利未的兒子是革順、哥轄、米拉利。

利未的兒子是革順、哥轄和米拉利。

利未的兒子是革順、哥轄和米拉利。

利未的兒子革順、哥轄、米拉利；

利未的兒子革順、哥轄、米拉利；

利未之子、革順、哥轄、米拉利、

利未生革順、哥轄、米喇哩。

利未之子、革順、哥轄、米拉利、

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Levi’s sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Levi’s sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said,“ Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore he was named Levi.

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Speak to Aaron and say to him,‘ When you mount the lamps, the seven lamps will provide light in the front of the lampstand.’ ”Therefore Aaron did so; he mounted its lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flower ornamentation it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.This is what you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying water on them, and have them use a razor over their whole body, and they shall wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.Then have them take a bull with its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and you shall take a second bull as a sin offering.So you shall present the Levites in front of the tent of meeting. You shall also assemble the whole congregation of the sons of Israel,and present the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites.Aaron then shall present the Levites before the Lord as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so that they may qualify to perform the service of the Lord.Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then you are to offer the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.And you shall have the Levites stand before Aaron and his sons so as to present them as a wave offering to the Lord.“ So you shall single out the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be Mine.Then after that the Levites may go in to serve the tent of meeting. But you shall cleanse them and present them as a wave offering;for they are exclusively given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for Myself instead of the firstborn of every womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel.For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the people and among the animals; on the day that I fatally struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, to perform the service of the sons of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, so that there will be no affliction among the sons of Israel due to their approaching the sanctuary.”So this is what Moses, Aaron, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel did to the Levites; according to everything that the Lord had commanded Moses regarding the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the Lord. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; just as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting.But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the work and not work anymore.They may, however, assist their brothers in the tent of meeting, to fulfill an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. In this way you shall deal with the Levites in their obligations.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“ Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ households,from thirty years old and upward, even to fifty years old, everyone who can enter the service of ministry to do work in the tent of meeting.This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things.“ When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it;and they shall place a covering of fine leather on it, and spread over it a cloth of pure violet, and insert its carrying poles.Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of violet and put on it the dishes, the pans, the sacrificial bowls, and the jugs for the drink offering; and the continual bread shall be on it.And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and they shall insert its carrying poles.Then they shall take a violet cloth and cover the lampstand for the light, along with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all its oil containers, by which they attend to it;and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on the carrying bars.Over the golden altar they shall spread a violet cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and they shall insert its carrying poles;and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a violet cloth and cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on the carrying bars.Then they shall clean away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks, shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of fine leather over it and insert its carrying poles.When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them by the poles, so that they will not touch the holy objects and die. These are the things in the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.“ Now the responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the continual grain offering, and the anointing oil— the responsibility of all the tabernacle and everything that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,“ Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be eliminated from among the Levites.Rather, do this for them so that they will live and not die when they approach the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his work and to his load;but they shall not come in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die.”Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,“ Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ households, by their families;from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall count them: all who can enter to perform service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of fine leather that is on top of it, and the curtain for the entrance of the tent of meeting,and the curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the courtyard that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes and all the equipment for their service; and everything that is to be done by them, they shall perform.All the service of the sons of the Gershonites, that is, all their loads and all their work, shall be performed at the command of Aaron and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a duty all their loads.This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting; and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.“ As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ households;from thirty years old and upward, even to fifty years old, you shall count them, everyone who can enter the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.Now this is the duty of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, and its bases,and the pillars around the courtyard and their bases, their pegs, and their ropes, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign by names of the men the items that each is to carry.This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers’ households,from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter the service for work in the tent of meeting.Their numbered men by their families were 2,750.These were the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.And the numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers’ households,from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter the service for work in the tent of meeting—their numbered men by their families, by their fathers’ households, were 2,630.These were the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the Lord.And the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by their fathers’ households,from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter the service for work in the tent of meeting—their numbered men by their families were 3,200.These were the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ households,from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter to do the work of service and the work of carrying in the tent of meeting—their numbered men were 8,580.According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses, they were counted, everyone by his serving or carrying; so these were his numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

“ Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.May my soul not enter into their council; May my glory not be united with their assembly; For in their anger they killed men, And in their self will they lamed oxen.Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel. I will scatter them in Jacob, And disperse them among Israel.

These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

These, then, are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites.Their numbered men, in the counting of every male from a month old and upward, their numbered men were 7,500.

Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the three sons of Zeruiah were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel.

These are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath fathered Amram.

Nahshon fathered Salma, Salma fathered Boaz,

Then David said,“ This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”So David gave orders to gather the strangers who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to cut out stones to build the house of God.And David prepared large quantities of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed;and timbers of cedar beyond number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought large quantities of cedar timber to David.David said,“ My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord shall be exceedingly magnificent, famous, and glorious throughout the lands. Therefore I now will make preparations for it.” So David made ample preparations before his death.Then he called for his son Solomon, and commanded him to build a house for the Lord God of Israel.David said to Solomon,“ My son, I had intended to build a house for the name of the Lord my God.But the word of the Lord came to me, saying,‘ You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me.Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.He shall build a house for My name, and he shall be My son and I will be his Father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’Now, my son, the Lord be with you that you may be successful, and build the house of the Lord your God just as He has spoken concerning you.Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the Lord your God.Then you will prosper, if you are careful to follow the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be dismayed.Now behold, with great pains I have prepared for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for they are in great quantity; I have also prepared timber and stone, and you may add to that.Moreover there are many workmen with you, stonecutters, masons of stone, and carpenters; and all of them are skillful in every kind of work.Of the gold, silver, bronze, and iron there is no limit. Arise and work, and may the Lord be with you.”David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,“ Is the Lord your God not with you? And has He not given you rest on every side? For He has handed over to me the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before the Lord and before His people.Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; then arise, and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for the name of the Lord.”

Of Levi he said,“ Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man, Whom You tested at Massah, With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;Who said of his father and his mother,‘ I did not consider them’; And he did not acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he regard his own sons, For they kept Your word, And complied with Your covenant.They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob, And Your Law to Israel. They shall put incense before You, And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.Lord, bless his strength, And accept the work of his hands; Smash the hips of those who rise up against him, And those who hate him, so that they do not rise again.”

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was 137 years.

The sons of Levi were Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.