Exodus 6:16

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

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

The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”

The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “Now this time my husband will be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

These are those who were counted of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty;

These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.

They set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty;

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

Amram took Jochebed his father’s sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. The years of the life of Amram were one hundred thirty-seven years.

These are that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, “Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.”

These are those who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister. She is your father’s near kinswoman.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister, for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.

Now this is the history of the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke with Moses in Mount Sinai.

You shall write Aaron’s name on Levi’s rod. There shall be one rod for each head of their fathers’ houses.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. Kohath became the father of Amram.

After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.

David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,