34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me,(A) because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.[a](B)

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  1. Genesis 29:34 Levi sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for attached.

34 She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called [a]Levi.

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  1. Genesis 29:34 Lit. Attached

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

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47 The ancestral tribe of the Levites,(A) however, was not counted(B) along with the others.

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47 But (A)the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe;

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He called together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:(A)

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Then David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites:

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David separated(A) the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi:(B) Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

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Also (A)David separated them into [a]divisions among the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 23:6 groups

12 Then these Levites(A) set to work:

from the Kohathites,

Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;

from the Merarites,

Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;

from the Gershonites,

Joah son of Zimmah and Eden(B) son of Joah;

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12 Then these Levites arose: (A)Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the (B)Kohathites; of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;

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