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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Numbers 3:17

And these were the sonnes of Leui, 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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these were the sons of Levi 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 spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them. 16 And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei. 19 And the sonnes of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 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. 21 Of Gershon was the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males, from a moneth old and vpward, euen those that were numbred of them, were seuen thousand and fiue hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonites shal 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 vnto the serpent, Wee may eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden:
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shal not eate of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:5
For God doeth know, that in the day ye eate thereof, then your eyes shalbee opened: and yee shall bee as Gods, knowing good and euill.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eate, and gaue also vnto her husband with her, and hee did eate.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, & they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues aprons.
Genesis 3:9
And the LORD God called vnto Adam, and said vnto 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 eate?
Genesis 3:13
And the LORD God said vnto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The Serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said vnto the Serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the field: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate, all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorowe and thy conception. In sorow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and hee shall rule ouer 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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