1Chr.6
[1] The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
[2] And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron,
and Uzziel.
[3] And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab,
and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
[4] Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
[5] And Abishua
begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
[6] And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
[7] Meraioth
begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
[8] And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
[9]
And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
[10] And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that
executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
[11] And Azariah begat Amariah,
and Amariah begat Ahitub,
[12] And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
[13] And Shallum
begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
[14] And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,
[15]
And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand
of Nebuchadnezzar.
[16] The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
[17] And these be the names
of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
[18] And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and
Hebron, and Uzziel.
[19] The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites
according to their fathers.
[20] Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
[21] Joah his
son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.
[22] The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah
his son, Assir his son,
[23] Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
[24] Tahath his
son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
[25] And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.
[26]
As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
[27] Eliab his son, Jeroham
his son, Elkanah his son.
[28] And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.
[29] The sons of
Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,
[30] Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah
his son.
[31] And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD,
after that the ark had rest.
[32] And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the
congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they
waited on their office according to their order.
[33] And these are they that waited with their children. Of
the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
[34] The son of Elkanah,
the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
[35] The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son
of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
[36] The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of
Zephaniah,
[37] The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
[38] The son
of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
[39] And his brother Asaph, who stood on
his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
[40] The son of Michael, the son
of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
[41] The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
[42] The
son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
[43] The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the
son of Levi.
[44] And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the
son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
[45] The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
[46]
The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,
[47] The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son
of Merari, the son of Levi.
[48] Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service
of the tabernacle of the house of God.
[49] But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt
offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to
make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
[50] And
these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,
[51] Bukki his son, Uzzi
his son, Zerahiah his son,
[52] Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
[53] Zadok his son,
Ahimaaz his son.
[54] Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the
sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
[55] And they gave them Hebron in
the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.
[56] But the fields of the city, and the villages
thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
[57] And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of
Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with
their suburbs,
[58] And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
[59] And Ashan with her suburbs,
and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs:
[60] And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and
Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were
thirteen cities.
[61] And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities
given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
[62] And to the