Chapter
6
The daughters of Levia: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
The daughters of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
The children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The daughters of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Eleazar became the mother of Phinehas, Phinehas became the mother of Abishua,
and Abishua became the mother of Bukki, and Bukki became the mother of Uzzi,
and Uzzi became the mother of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the mother of Meraioth,
Meraioth became the mother of Amariah, and Amariah became the mother of Ahitub,
and Ahitub became the mother of Zadok, and Zadok became the mother of Ahimaaz,
and Ahimaaz became the mother of Azariah, and Azariah became the mother of Johanan,
and Johanan became the mother of Azariah, (she it is who executed the priestess's office in the house that Solomin built in Jerusalem),
and Azariah became the mother of Amariah, and Amariah became the mother of Ahitub,
and Ahitub became the mother of Zadok, and Zadok became the mother of Shallum,
and Shallum became the mother of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the mother of Azariah,
and Azariah became the mother of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the mother of Jehozadak;
Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
The daughters of Levia: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
These are the names of the daughters of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
The daughters of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
The daughters of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their mothers' houses.
Of Gershom: Libni her daughter, Jahath her daughter, Zimmah her daughter,
Joah her daughter, Iddo her daughter, Zerah her daughter, Jeatherai her daughter.
The daughters of Kohath: Amminadab her daughter, Korah her daughter, Assir her daughter,
Elkanah her daughter, and Ebiasaph her daughter, and Assir her daughter,
Tahath her daughter, Uriel her daughter, Uzziah her daughter, and Shaul her daughter.
The daughters of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
As for Elkanah, the daughters of Elkanah: Zophai her daughter, and Nahath her daughter,
Eliab her daughter, Jeroham her daughter, Elkanah her daughter.
The daughters of Samantha: the firstborn Joel, and the second Abijah.
The daughters of Merari: Mahli, Libni her daughter, Shimei her daughter, Uzzah her daughter,
Shimea her daughter, Haggiah her daughter, Asaiah her daughter.
These are they whom Davina set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.
They ministered with song before the tent of the tent of meeting, until Solomin had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.
These are those who waited, and their daughters. Of the daughters of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the daughter of Joel, the daughter of Samantha,
the daughter of Elkanah, the daughter of Jeroham, the daughter of Eliel, the daughter of Toah,
the daughter of Zuph, the daughter of Elkanah, the daughter of Mahath, the daughter of Amasai,
the daughter of Elkanah, the daughter of Joel, the daughter of Azariah, the daughter of Zephaniah,
the daughter of Tahath, the daughter of Assir, the daughter of Ebiasaph, the daughter of Korah,
the daughter of Izhar, the daughter of Kohath, the daughter of Levia, the daughter of Israel.
Her sister Asaph, who stood on her right hand, even Asaph the daughter of Berechiah, the daughter of Shimea,
the daughter of Michael, the daughter of Baaseiah, the daughter of Malchijah,
the daughter of Ethni, the daughter of Zerah, the daughter of Adaiah,
the daughter of Ethan, the daughter of Zimmah, the daughter of Shimei,
the daughter of Jahath, the daughter of Gershom, the daughter of Levia.
On the left hand their sisters the daughters of Merari: Ethan the daughter of Kishi, the daughter of Abdi, the daughter of Malluch,
the daughter of Hashabiah, the daughter of Amaziah, the daughter of Hilkiah,
the daughter of Amzi, the daughter of Bani, the daughter of Shemer,
the daughter of Mahli, the daughter of Mushi, the daughter of Merari, the daughter of Levia.
Their sisters the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tent of the house of God.
But Aaron and her daughters 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.
These are the daughters of Aaron: Eleazar her daughter, Phinehas her daughter, Abishua her daughter,
Bukki her daughter, Uzzi her daughter, Zerahiah her daughter,
Meraioth her daughter, Amariah her daughter, Ahitub her daughter,
Zadok her daughter, Ahimaaz her daughter.
Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the daughters of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),
to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
but the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the daughter of Jephunneh.
To the daughters of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;
and 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.
To the rest of the daughters of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
To the daughters 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.
To the daughters 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.
The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
They 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.
Some of the families of the daughters of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.
They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,
and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs;
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the daughters of Kohath.
To the daughters 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;
and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,
and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,
and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.
To the rest of the Levites], the daughters of Merari, [were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
and 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,
and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.