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Numbers 3:20

and the [two] sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' households.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Gershon;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Merarites;   Mushi;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mahli;   Merari;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Levites;   Mahli;   Mushi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Merari, Merarites;   Moses;   Mushi;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Gershon, Gershonites ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Mahli ;   Merari, Merarites ;   Mushi, Mushites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mah'li;   Mu'shi;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Father's House;   Mahli;   Merari;   Moses;   Mushi;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Merari by their families: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
King James Version
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their families.
New Century Version
The Merarite family groups were Mahli and Mushi. These were the family groups of the Levites.
New English Translation
The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.
New American Standard Bible
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Leui, according to the houses of their fathers.
Legacy Standard Bible
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.
Contemporary English Version
And Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. These were the sons and grandsons of Levi, and they had become the leaders of the Levite clans.
Complete Jewish Bible
and the sons of M'rari — Machli and Mushi. These fathered the clans of the L'vi'im.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Merari family groups were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families that belonged to Levi's family group.
English Standard Version
And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.
George Lamsa Translation
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahali and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
Christian Standard Bible®
Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families.
Literal Translation
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These were the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Merari in their kynreds, were Maheli and Musi. These are the kynreds of Leui after their fathers houses.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the sonnes of Merari in their kinredes: Maheli, and Musi. These are the kinredes of the Leuites, accordyng to the houses of their fathers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Leuites, according to the house of their fathers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
Berean Standard Bible
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the sones of Merari weren Mooly, and Musi.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Merari by their families [are] Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi: these [are] the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers.
World English Bible
The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
New King James Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses.
New Living Translation
The clans descended from Merari were named after two of his descendants, Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans, listed according to their family groups.
New Life Bible
The sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their ancestral houses.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Merari by their families, Mahli and Mushi. These, are they - the families of the Levites by their ancestral houses.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi.
Revised Standard Version
And the sons of Merar'i by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.
THE MESSAGE
The sons of Merari by clan: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi, family by family.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.

Contextual Overview

14Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families (clans). You shall number every male from a month old and upward." 16So Moses numbered them just as he was commanded by the word (mouth) of the LORD. 17These are the [three] sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 18These are the names of the [two] sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei; 19and the [four] sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; 20and the [two] sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' households.21Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites. 22The males who were numbered, every male from a month old and upward totaled 7,500. 23The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 3:33, Exodus 6:19, 1 Chronicles 6:19, 1 Chronicles 6:29, 1 Chronicles 6:44-47, 1 Chronicles 15:6, 1 Chronicles 23:21-23, 1 Chronicles 24:27-30, 1 Chronicles 25:3

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:7 - General 1 Chronicles 6:47 - Mahli 1 Chronicles 6:63 - Merari 1 Chronicles 23:24 - after the house 2 Chronicles 31:17 - genealogy Ezra 8:18 - Mahli

Cross-References

Genesis 2:20
And the man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper [that was] suitable (a companion) for him.
Genesis 2:23
Then Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah, saying, "This one shall bring us rest and comfort from our work and from the [dreadful] toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD cursed."
Genesis 16:11
The Angel of the LORD continued, "Behold, you are with child, And you will bear a son; And you shall name him Ishmael (God hears), Because the LORD has heard and paid attention to your persecution (suffering).
Genesis 35:18
And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin (son of the right hand).
Exodus 2:10
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
1 Samuel 1:20
It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; she named him Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked for him from the LORD."
Matthew 1:21
"She will give birth to a Son, and you shall name Him Jesus (The LORD is salvation), for He will save His people from their sins."
Matthew 1:23
"BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL"—which, when translated, means, "GOD WITH US."
Acts 17:26
"And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sons, of Merari, by their families,.... The third son of Levi;

Mahli and Mushi; the same as in Exodus 6:19; from whom were denominated the families of the Mahlites and Mushites, who, as the preceding families, were numbered at this time: these

[are] the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers; in all eight families.


 
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