Genesis 35:28

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.

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.”

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

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

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

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.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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.

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

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.

I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

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.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

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

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

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

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

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

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.

Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

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

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to Babylon.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

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