20And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
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And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
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, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-39)The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward , Num. 3:15. The rest of the tribes were numbered only from twenty years old and upwards, and of them those only that were able to go forth to war ; but into th…
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