1st Chronicles Chapter 6 verse 16 Holy Bible
The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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Sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16-19. - These verses have a re-enumeration of the three sons of Levi, and differ from the enumeration of ver. 1, in being followed by the sons of each of these three, and afterwards by the line of descendants from each, instead of by the sons of only one, Kohath, and his descendant in only one stem, the high priest stem, and with only one object. All these names agree with Exodus 6:17-19 and Numbers 3:17-20 (comp. also Numbers 3:21-36 with Numbers 26:57-60), with the trifling exceptions already alluded to, in the Hebrew spelling of Gershom and the Authorized Version spelling of Shimei and the Authorized Version Mahali of Exodus 6:19. The latter half of ver. 19, according to the Hebrew, should rather refer to what has preceded, and be a "subscription," though it might best suit the connection to regard it as introducing what was to follow, and as being a "superscription." Bertheau holds with the former of these views, Keil with the latter.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16-19) The three branches of Levi with their main subdivisions. Parallel passages, Exodus 6:16-19; Numbers 3:17-20.(16) Gershom.--See Note on 1Chronicles 6:1. In the Pentateuch, Gershom is son of Moses; Gershon, son of Levi.(19) And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.--The word'families" (Heb., mishpehuth) does not mean single households, but groups of households, or clans. The sentence concludes the short list of the great Levitical houses, just as at Exodus 6:19. (See also Numbers 3:20, where a like formula appears to introduce what follows.) . . .
