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Numbers 3:18

These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Gershon;   Levites;   Libni;   Shimei;   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 - Libni;   Shimei;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Libni;   Shimei;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Levites;   Shimei;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Job;   Libni;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Shimei, Shimeites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Gershon, Gershonites ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Libni ;   Merari, Merarites ;   Shimei ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Shimei;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lib'ni;   Shim'ei;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Livni and Shim`i.
King James Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
Lexham English Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei.
New Century Version
The Gershonite family groups were Libni and Shimei.
New English Translation
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Amplified Bible
These are the names of the [two] sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;
New American Standard Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Legacy Standard Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;
Contemporary English Version
Gershon's sons were Libni and Shimei.
Complete Jewish Bible
The names of the sons of Gershon were Livni and Shim‘i; they fathered their respective clans;
Darby Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their families: Libni and Shimei.
Easy-to-Read Version
Each son was the leader of several family groups. The Gershon family groups were Libni and Shimei.
English Standard Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
George Lamsa Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Christian Standard Bible®
These were the names of Gershon’s sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
Literal Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The names of the children of Gerson in their kynreds, were: Libni and Semei.
American Standard Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Bible in Basic English
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And these are the names of the chyldren of Gerson in their kinredes: Libni, and Semei.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
King James Version (1611)
And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these are the names of the sons of Gedson according to their families; Lobeni and Semei:
English Revised Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni and Shimei.
Berean Standard Bible
These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the sones of Gerson weren Lebny, and Semey;
Young's Literal Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Update Bible Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
Webster's Bible Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
New King James Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
New Living Translation
The clans descended from Gershon were named after two of his descendants, Libni and Shimei.
New Life Bible
The names of the sons of Gershon by their families are Libni and Shimei.
New Revised Standard
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And these, the names of the sons of Gershon by their families, - Libni and Shimei.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei.
Revised Standard Version
And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shim'e-i.
THE MESSAGE
These are the names of the Gershonite clans: Libni and Shimei.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei;

Contextual Overview

14 Yahweh spoke to 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 shall you number." 16 Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded. 17 These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei. 19 The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20 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 who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 3:21, Exodus 6:17-19, 1 Chronicles 6:17, 1 Chronicles 6:20, 1 Chronicles 6:21, 1 Chronicles 23:7-11, 1 Chronicles 25:4, 1 Chronicles 26:1-32, Nehemiah 12:1-26

Reciprocal: Numbers 4:22 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly shall you go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh."
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 31:40
Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Psalms 90:3
You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
Psalms 104:2
He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.
Proverbs 24:31
Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these [are] the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families,.... Or to Gershon belonged two families, called after the names of his sons, who were now numbered, namely,

Libni and Shimei; and who are elsewhere mentioned as his sons, Exodus 6:17; and from hence were the families of the Libnites and Shimites, as in Numbers 3:21.


 
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