33Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
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The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.
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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