⁴³ Jahath, Gershon, and Levi.

⁶ Then David divided the Levites into divisions named after the clans descended from the three sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²⁰ The descendants of Gershon included Libni, Jahath, Zimmah,

The Levite Clans

^16 [a]The sons of Levi were Gershon,^[b] Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁷ The descendants of Gershon included Libni and Shimei.

The Priestly Line

6 ^[a]The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁷ Levi had three sons, whose names were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁶ These are the descendants of Levi, as listed in their family records: The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (Levi lived to be 137 years old.)

²² Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[a] for he explained, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

¹¹ The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.