The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer,

son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.

And their brethren the Levites are put to all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

And Aaron and his sons are making perfume on the altar of the burnt-offering, and on the altar of the perfume, for all the work of the holy of holies, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses servant of God commanded.

And these [are] sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

And these [are] their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot;

and they give to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its suburbs round about it;

and the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.

And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,

and Hilen and its suburbs, Debir and its suburbs,

and Ashan and its suburbs, and Beth-Shemesh and its suburbs.

And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba and its suburbs, and Allemeth and its suburbs, and Anathoth and its suburbs. All their cities [are] thirteen cities, for their families.

And to the sons of Kohath, those left of the family of the tribe, from the half of the tribe, the half of Manasseh, by lot, [are] ten cities.

And to the sons of Gershom, for their families, from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

To the sons of Merari, for their families, from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, twelve cities.

And the sons of Israel give to the Levites the cities and their suburbs.

And they give by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin, these cities which they call by name;

and some of the families of the sons of Kohath have cities of their border from the tribe of Ephraim;

and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs,

and Jokmeam and its suburbs, and Beth-Horan and its suburbs,

and Aijalon and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs;

and from the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, for the family of the sons of Kohath who are left.

To the sons of Gershom from the family of the half of the tribe of Manasseh [are] Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs;

and from the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh and its suburbs, Daberath and its suburbs,

and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;

and from the tribe of Asher; Mashal and its suburbs, and Abdon and its suburbs,

and Hukok and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs;

and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee and its suburbs, and Hammon and its suburbs, and Kirjathaim and its suburbs.

To the sons of Merari who are left, from the tribe of Zebulun, [are] Rimmon and its suburbs, Tabor and its suburbs;

and from beyond the Jordan by Jericho, at the east of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness and its suburbs, and Jahzah and its suburbs,

and Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs;

and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,

and Heshbon and its suburbs, and Jazer and its suburbs.

And sons of Issachar; Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

And sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of the house of their fathers, [even] of Tola, mighty of valour in their generations: their number in the days of David [is] twenty and two thousand and six hundred.

And sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah; and sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, Hamishah — all of them heads.

And beside them, by their generations, of the house of their fathers, [are] troops of the host of battle, thirty and six thousand, for they multiplied wives and sons;

and their brethren of all the families of Issachar [are] mighty of valour, eighty and seven thousand, all have their genealogy.

Of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

And sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of a house of fathers, mighty of valour, with their genealogy, twenty and two thousand, and thirty and four.

And sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezar, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these [are] sons of Becher,

with their genealogy, after their generations, heads of a house of their fathers, mighty of valour, twenty thousand and two hundred.

And sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

All these [are] sons of Jediael, even heads of the fathers, mighty in valour, seventeen thousand and two hundred going out to the host for battle.

And Shuppim and Huppim [are] sons of Ir; Hushim son of Aher.

Sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, sons of Bilhah.

Sons of Manasseh: Ashriel, whom Jaladah his Aramaean concubine bare, with Machir father of Gilead.

And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one [is] Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters.

And Maachah wife of Machir beareth a son and calleth his name Peresh, and the name of his brother [is] Sheresh, and his sons [are] Ulam and Rakem.

And son of Ulam: Bedan. These [are] sons of Gilead son of Machir, son of Manasseh.

And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

And the sons of Shemida are Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

And sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and slain them have men of Gath who are born in the land, because they came down to take their cattle.

And Ephraim their father mourneth many days, and his brethren come in to comfort him,

and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house, —

and his daughter [is] Sherah, and she buildeth Beth-Horon, the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-Sherah —

and Rephah [is] his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

Non his son, Jehoshua his son.

And their possession and their dwellings [are] Beth-El and its small towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its small towns, and Shechem and its small towns, unto Gaza and its small towns;

and by the parts of the sons of Manasseh, Beth-Shean and its small towns, Taanach and its small towns, Megiddo and its small towns, Dor and its small towns; in these dwelt the sons of Joseph son of Israel.

Son of Asher: Imnah, and Ishve, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

And sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel — he [is] father of Birzavith.

And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

And sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath; these [are] sons of Japhlet.

and sons of Shamer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

And son of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

Sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

And sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

And sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rezia.

All these [are] sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen ones, mighty in valour, heads of the princes, with their genealogy, for the host, for battle, their number [is] twenty and six thousand men.

And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

And there are sons to Bela: Addar, and Gera,

and Abihud, and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

And these [are] sons of Ehud: they are heads of fathers to the inhabitants of Geba, and they remove them unto Manahath;

and Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza and Ahihud.

And Shaharaim begat in the field of Moab, after his sending them away; Hushim and Baara [are] his wives.

And he begetteth of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

and Jeuz, and Shachiah, and Mirmah. These [are] his sons, heads of fathers.

And of Hushim he begat Ahitub and Elpaal.

And sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misheam, and Shamer, (he built Ono and Lod and its small towns),

and Beriah and Shema, (they [are] the heads of fathers to the inhabitants of Aijalon — they caused to flee the inhabitants of Gath),

and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,

and Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, sons of Beriah,

and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,

and Ishmerai, and Jezliah, and Jobab, sons of Elpaal;

And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,

and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,

and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, sons of Shimei;

And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,

and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,

and Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,