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Numbers 3:20

The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

  • KJV King James Version

    And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

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Cross-references (9)

Passages linked to Numbers 3:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.
  • 1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
  • Numbers 3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
  • 1 Chronicles 6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
  • 1 Chronicles 6:44-47 On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
  • 1 Chronicles 15:6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
  • 1 Chronicles 23:21-23 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them as wives. The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
  • 1 Chronicles 24:27-30 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri. Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. Of Kish, the son of Kish: Jerahmeel. The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’ houses.
  • 1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Yahweh with the harp.

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the sons, of Merari, by their families,.... The…

And the sons, of Merari, by their families,.... The third son of Levi:

Mahli and Mushi; the same as in Exo 6:19; from whom were denominated the families of the Mahlites and Mushites, who, as the preceding families, were numbered at this time: these

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are the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers; in all eight families.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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