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Literal Standard Version

Exodus 6:19

And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; these [are] families of Levi, as to their births.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Genealogy;   Mahli;   Mushi;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Korah;   Levi;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Levite;   Priest;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Merari;   Moses;   Mushi;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amram;   Genealogy;   Levites;   Mahli;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Amram;   Father's House;   Mahli;   Mushi;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amram;   Mahli;   Merari, Merarites;   Moses;   Mushi;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel in Egypt;   Mahli ;   Merari, Merarites ;   Mushi, Mushites ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Aaron;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Korah;   Moses;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ma'hali;   Mu'shi;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Exodus, the Book of;   Genealogy;   Kohath;   Mahli;   Merari;   Mooli;   Moses;   Mushi;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Amram, Father of Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Merari: Machli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
King James Version
And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
Lexham English Bible
And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi. These are clans of the Levites according to their genealogies.
New Century Version
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the family groups of Levi, according to their family history.
New English Translation
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi, according to their records.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.
New American Standard Bible
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the sonnes of Merari were Mahali & Mushi: these are ye families of Leui by their kinreds.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Contemporary English Version
Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. All of the above were from the Levi tribe.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of M'rari were Machli and Mushi. These were the families of Levi with their descendants.
Darby Translation
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
Easy-to-Read Version
Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. All these families were from Israel's son Levi.
English Standard Version
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations.
George Lamsa Translation
The sons of Merari: Mahali and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Good News Translation
Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi with their descendants.
Christian Standard Bible®
The sons of Merari:
Literal Translation
And the sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. These were the families of Levi according to their generations.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Merari are these: Maheli and Musi. These are ye generacions of Leui in their kynreds.
American Standard Version
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Bible in Basic English
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of the Levites, in the order of their generations.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Merari: Mahli, and Musi: these are the kinredes of Leui by their geuerations.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
King James Version (1611)
And the sonnes of Merari: Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Leui, according to their generations.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Omusi, these are the houses of the families of Levi, according to their kindreds.
English Revised Version
And the sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Merari weren Mooli and Musi. These weren the kynredis of Leuy bi her meynees.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Merari [are] Mahli and Mushi: these [are] families of Levi, as to their births.
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these [are] the families of Levi, according to their generations.
World English Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
New King James Version
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of Levi according to their generations.
New Living Translation
The descendants of Merari included Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, as listed in their family records.
New Life Bible
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their family groups.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their genealogies.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sons of Merari, Mahli and Mushi. These, are the families of the Levites by their generations.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. These are the kindreds of Levi by their families.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Merar'i: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
THE MESSAGE
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the sons of Levi in the order of their birth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

Contextual Overview

14These [are] heads of the house of their fathers. Sons of Reuben firstborn of Israel: Enoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these [are] families of Reuben. 15And sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul, son of the Canaanite; these [are] families of Simeon. 16And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi [are] one hundred and thirty-seven years. 17The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimi, as to their families. 18And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath [are] one hundred and thirty-three years. 19And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; these [are] families of Levi, as to their births.20And Amram takes his aunt Jochebed to himself for a wife, and she bears Aaron and Moses to him; and the years of the life of Amram [are] one hundred and thirty-seven years. 21And sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22And sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23And Aaron takes Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she bears to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 3:20, 1 Chronicles 6:19, 1 Chronicles 23:21

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:7 - General 1 Chronicles 6:47 - Merari 1 Chronicles 24:27 - sons

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
and the sons of God see that they, the daughters of men, [are] beautiful, and they take women for themselves of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 6:3
And YHWH says, "My Spirit does not strive in man for all time, for indeed, he [is] flesh, but his days have been one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:8
And Noah found grace in the eyes of YHWH.
Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
and this [is] how you do it: three hundred cubits [is] the length of the Ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;
Genesis 6:16
you make a window for the Ark, and you finish it to a cubit from above; and you put the opening of the Ark in its side; you make it [with] lower, second, and third [stories].
Genesis 8:17
and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth."
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness [is] as mountains of God, || Your judgments [are] a great deep. You save man and beast, O YHWH.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sons of Merari, Mahali, and Mushi,.... From whence sprung the families of the Mahalites, and Mushites, Numbers 3:33:

these are the families of Levi, according to their generations: the families that descended from him and his sons, according to the order of their birth.


 
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