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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 3:17

And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Gershon;   Levites;   Merari;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gershon;   Merari;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Levites;   Merari;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Kohathites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Levites;   Merari;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Job;   Merari, Merarites;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Gershon, Gershonites ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Merari, Merarites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gershon;   Kohath;   Merari;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Kohath;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kehat, and Merari.
King James Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Lexham English Bible
These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New Century Version
Levi had three sons, whose names were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New English Translation
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Amplified Bible
These are the [three] sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New American Standard Bible
These, then, are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And these are the sonnes of Leui by their names, Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Legacy Standard Bible
These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
Contemporary English Version
Levi's three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, had become the heads of their own clans.
Complete Jewish Bible
The names of the sons of Levi were Gershon, K'hat and M'rari.
Darby Translation
And these are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Easy-to-Read Version
Levi had three sons. Their names were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
English Standard Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
George Lamsa Translation
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
Good News Translation
Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, who were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. Gershon had two sons: Libni and Shimei; Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi. They were the ancestors of the families that bear their names.
Christian Standard Bible®
These were Levi’s sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Literal Translation
And these are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And these were the children of Leui with their names: Gerson, Rahath, Merari.
American Standard Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Bible in Basic English
These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And these were the chyldren of Leui in their names: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari.
King James Version (1611)
And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gedson, Caath, and Merari.
English Revised Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Berean Standard Bible
These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones of Leuy weren foundun, bi her names, Gerson, and Caath, and Merary;
Young's Literal Translation
And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Update Bible Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Webster's Bible Translation
And these were the sons of Levi, by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
World English Bible
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
New King James Version
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New Living Translation
Levi had three sons, whose names were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New Life Bible
The names of the sons of Levi are Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
New Revised Standard
The following were the sons of Levi, by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And these were the sons of Levi, by their names, - Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath Merari.
Revised Standard Version
And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merar'i.
THE MESSAGE
These are the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

Contextual Overview

14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying: 15 'Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.' 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses. 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 26:57, Numbers 26:58, Genesis 46:11, Exodus 6:16-19, Joshua 21:1-45, 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:2, 1 Chronicles 6:16-19

Gershon: Numbers 15:5-23, Numbers 23:6-23, Numbers 24:1 - Numbers 26:65, Nehemiah 11:1 - Nehemiah 12:47

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:43 - Gershom

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
Genesis 3:3
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'
Genesis 3:5
for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.'
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.
Genesis 3:9
And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'
Genesis 3:11
And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said unto the woman: 'What is this thou hast done?' And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.'
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these were the sons of Levi, by their names,.... The immediate offspring and descendants of that patriarch:

Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; these went down with him into Egypt,

Genesis 46:11.


 
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