The First Book of Chronicles (WEB)
6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 6:2The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel. 6:3The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons of
Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 6:4Eleazar became the father of Phinehas,
Phinehas became the father of Abishua, 6:5and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki
became the father of Uzzi, 6:6and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the
father of Meraioth, 6:7Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of
Ahitub, 6:8and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz, 6:9and
Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan, 6:10and Johanan
became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon
built in Jerusalem), 6:11and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father
of Ahitub, 6:12and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shallum,
6:13and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, 6:14and
Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak; 6:15Jehozadak
went into captivity, when Yahweh carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar. 6:16The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 6:17These are the names of the
sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 6:18The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel. 6:19The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites
according to their fathers' houses. 6:20Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
6:21Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. 6:22The sons of Kohath: Amminadab
his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 6:23Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
6:24Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 6:25The sons of Elkanah:
Amasai, and Ahimoth. 6:26As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
6:27Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. 6:28The sons of Samuel: the firstborn Joel, and
the second Abijah. 6:29The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
6:30Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. 6:31These are they whom David set over the
service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest. 6:32They ministered with song
before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem:
and they waited on their office according to their order. 6:33These are those who waited, and their
sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, 6:34the
son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, 6:35the son of Zuph, the son
of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 6:36the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son
of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 6:37the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the
son of Korah, 6:38the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. 6:39His
brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
6:40the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 6:41the son of Ethni, the son of
Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 6:42the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, 6:43the son of
Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. 6:44On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari:
Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 6:45the son of Hashabiah, the son of
Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 6:46the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 6:47the son of
Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 6:48Their brothers the Levites were
appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God. 6:49But Aaron and his sons offered on
the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and
to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
6:50These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 6:51Bukki his
son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 6:52Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 6:53Zadok
his son, Ahimaaz his son. 6:54Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments
in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
6:55to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it; 6:56but the
fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 6:57To the sons of
Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and
Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 6:58and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, 6:59and Ashan with
its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; 6:60and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its
suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout
their families were thirteen cities. 6:61To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the
family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 6:62To the sons of
Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher,
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 6:63To
the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and
out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 6:64The children of Israel gave
to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. 6:65They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of
Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. 6:66Some of the families of the sons of
Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. 6:67They gave to them the cities of
refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
6:68and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs, 6:69and Aijalon with its suburbs,
and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; 6:70and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs,
and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. 6:71To the sons of
Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its
suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; 6:72and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its
suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 6:73and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs;
6:74and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs, 6:75and
Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; 6:76and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in
Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. 6:77To the
rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its
suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; 6:78and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the
Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and
Jahzah with its suburbs, 6:79and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; 6:80and
out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, 6:81and
Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
World English Bible