KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Chronicles 6
The sons of Levi. The line of the priests to the captivity. The families of Gershom, Merari, and Kohath. The office of Aaron.
1The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
2And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
3And Amram's sons: Aaron and Moses; also Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
4Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua,
5and Abishua fathered Bukki, and Bukki fathered Uzzi,
6and Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, and Zerahiah fathered Meraioth,
7Meraioth fathered Amariah, and Amariah fathered Ahitub,
8and Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, and Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, and Azariah fathered Johanan,
9and Johanan fathered Azariah, he who acted in the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem.
10And Azariah fathered Amariah; and Amariah fathered Ahitub;
11and Ahitub fathered Zadok, and Zadok fathered Shallum,
12and Shallum fathered Hilkiah, and Hilkiah fathered Azariah,
13and Azariah fathered Seraiah, and Seraiah fathered Jehozadak,
14and Jehozadak went away when Jehovah exiled Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
15The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
16And these are the names of the sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei.
17And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
18The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers:
19to Gershon: his son Libni, Jahath, his son, Zimmah, his son,
20Joah, his son, Iddo, his son, Zerah, his son, Jeaterai, his son.
21The sons of Kohath: his son Amminadab, Korah, his son, Assir, his son;
22Elkanah, his son, Ebiasaph, his son, and Assir, his son,
23Tahath, his son, Uriel, his son, Uzziah, his son, Shaul, his son.
24And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth,
25Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah: Zophai, his son, and Nahath, his son,
26Eliab, his son, Jeroham, his son; Elkanah, his son,
27and the sons of Samuel: Vashni (Joel), the first-born, and the second, even Abijah.
28The sons of Merari : Mahli, Libni, his son, Shimei, his son, Uzza, his son,
29Shimea, his son, Haggiah, his son, Asaiah, his son.
30And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Jehovah, after the ark had rested.
31And they ministered with singing before the resting place of the tabernacle of the congregation, until Solomon had built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem. And they waited on their office according to their ordinance.
32And these are those who stood, and their sons: Of the sons of the Kohathites, Heman, a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
33the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
34the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
35the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
36the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
37the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
38And his kinsman Asaph, who stood on his right hand: Asaph, the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
39the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
40the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
41the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
42the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
43And their brothers, the sons of Merari stood on the left: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
44the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
45the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
46the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
47Also their brothers, the Levites, were appointed for every service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
48But 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.
49And these were the sons of Aaron: Eleazar, his son, Phinehas, his son, Abishua, his son,
50Bukki, his son, Uzzi, his son, Zerahiah, his son,
51Meraioth, his son, Amariah, his son, Ahitub, his son,
52Zadok, his son, Ahimaaz, his son.
53And these are their dwelling places by their camps, within their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, for the lot was theirs.
54And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and its open lands all around it.
55But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
56And to the sons of Aaron, they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its open lands; and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its open lands,
57and Hilen and its open lands, Debir and its open lands,
58and Ashan and its open lands, and Beth-shemesh and its open lands.
59And out of the tribe of Benjamin were Geba and its open lands, and Alemeth and its open lands, and Anathoth and its open lands. All their cities in their families were thirteen cities.
60And to the sons of Kohath, remaining of the family of that tribe, ten cities out of the half tribe, the half of Manasseh by lot.
61And to the sons of Gershom for 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.
62To the sons of Merari by the lot, for their families: out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
63And the sons of Israel gave the cities to the Levites and their open lands.
64And they gave by the lot these cities which they call by their names: out of the tribe of the sons of Judah, and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin.
65And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
66And they gave to them for cities of refuge: Shechem in Mount Ephraim and its open lands, and Gezer and its open lands,
67and Jokmeam and its open lands, and Beth-horon and its open lands,
68and Aijalon and its open lands, and Gath-rimmon and its open lands.
69And out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its open lands, and Bileam and its open lands for the family of the rest of the sons of Kohath.
70To the sons of Gershom: out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan and its open lands, and Ashtaroth and its open lands.
71And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh and its open lands, Daberath and its open lands,
72and Ramoth and its open lands, and Anem and its open lands.
73And out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal and its open lands, and Abdon and its open lands;
74and Hukok and its open lands; and Rehob and its open lands.
75And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its open lands, and Hammon and its open lands, and Kirjath-aim and its open lands.
76To the rest of the sons of Merari: out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmon and its open lands, Tabor and its open lands.
77And beyond Jordan, by Jericho, on the east of the Jordan: out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness, and its open lands, and Jahzah and its open lands,
78and Kedemoth and its open lands, and Mephaath and its open lands.
79And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its open lands, and Mahanaim and its open lands,
80and Heshbon and its open lands, and Jazer and its open lands.
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