Divrei-HamYamim Alef (1 Ch) 6
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1The sons of Levi: Gershom, K’hat and M’rari. 2These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Livni and Shim‘i. 3The sons of K’hat: ‘Amram, Yitz’har, Hevron and ‘Uzi’el. 4The sons of M’rari: Machli and Mushi.
These are the families of the L’vi’im according to father’s clans: 5[The descendants] of Gershom: his son Livni, his son Yachat, his son Zimah, 6his son Yo’ach, his son ‘Iddo, his son Zerach, his son Ye’atrai.
7The descendants of K’hat: his son ‘Amminadav, his son Korach, his son Asir, 8his son Elkanah, his son Evyasaf, his son Asir, 9his son Tachat, his son Uri’el, his son ‘Uziyah and his son Sha’ul. 10The sons of Elkanah: ‘Amasai and Achimot. 11As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: his son Tzofai, his son Nachat, 12his son Eli’av, his son Yerocham and his son Elkanah. 13The sons of Sh’mu’el: Vashni the firstborn, then Aviyah.
14The descendants of M’rari: Machli, his son Livni, his son Shim‘i, his son ‘Uzah, 15his son Shim‘a, his son Hagiyah and his son ‘Asayah. 16David appointed them to be in charge of the service of song in the house of Adonai after the ark had found a permanent resting place. 17They served as singers before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Shlomo had built the house of Adonai in Yerushalayim; and they carried out their tasks in a prescribed order.
18Those who carried out these tasks and their descendants were — starting with descendants of the K’hati — Heman the singer, the son of Yo’el the son of Sh’mu’el, 19the son of Elkanah, the son of Yerocham, the son of Eli’el, the son of Toach, 20the son of Tzuf, the son of Elkanah, the son of Machat, the son of ‘Amasai, 21the son of Elkanah, the son of Yo’el, the son of ‘Azaryah, the son of Tz’fanyah, 22the son of Tachat, the son of Asir, the son of Evyasaf, the son of Korach, 23the son of Yitz’har, the son of K’hat, the son of Levi, the son of Isra’el.
24His brother Asaf, who stood on his right, was Asaf the son of Berekhyah, the son of Shim‘a, 25the son of Mikha’el, the son of Ba‘aseyah, the son of Malkiyah, 26the son of Etni, the son of Zerach the son of ‘Adayah, 27the son of Eitan, the son of Zimah, the son of Shim‘i, 28the son of Yachat, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
29On the left were their kinsmen the descendants of M’rari: Eitan the son of Kishi, the son of ‘Avdi, the son of Malukh, 30the son of Hashavyah, the son of Amatzyah, the son of Hilkiyah, 31the son of Amtzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 32the son of Machli, the son of Mushi, the son of M’rari, the son of Levi.
33Their kinsmen the L’vi’im were put in charge of all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
34But Aharon and his sons were the ones who offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the service of the Especially Holy Place and to make atonement for Isra’el, in keeping with all that Moshe the servant of God had ordered to be done. 35These are the descendants of Aharon: his son El‘azar, his son Pinchas, his son Avishua, 36his son Buki, his son ‘Uzi, his son Z’rachyah, 37his son M’rayot, his son Amaryah, his son Achituv, 38his son Tzadok and his son Achima‘atz.
39These were the settlements of the descendants of Aharon according to the territories assigned them: to the descendants of Aharon, of the clans of the K’hati — for the first lot fell to them — 40they gave Hevron in the land of Y’hudah with the open land surrounding it, 41but the fields and the dependent villages of the city they gave to Kalev the son of Y’funeh. 42To the descendants of Aharon they gave the city of refuge Hevron, also Livnah with its surrounding open land, Yatir, Esht’moa with its surrounding open land, 43Hilen with its surrounding open land, D’vir with its surrounding open land, 44‘Ashan with its surrounding open land, Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land; 45and out of the tribe of Binyamin: Geva with its surrounding open land, ‘Alemet with its surrounding open land and ‘Anatot with its surrounding open land. All the cities for all their clans amounted to thirteen cities.
46The rest of the descendants of K’hat were assigned by lot, clan by clan, ten cities from the half-tribe of M’nasheh. 47The descendants of Gershom were assigned, clan by clan, thirteen cities from the tribes of Yissakhar, Asher, Naftali and M’nasheh in Bashan. 48To the descendants of M’rari were assigned by lot, clan by clan, twelve cities from the tribes of Re’uven, Gad and Z’vulun. 49So the people of Isra’el gave the L’vi’im these cities with the surrounding open land. 50From the tribes of the descendants of Y’hudah, Shim‘on and Binyamin they assigned these cities mentioned by name.
51Some of the clans of the descendants of K’hat were given cities in territory from the tribe of Efrayim. 52They gave them the city of refuge Sh’khem in the hills of Efrayim with the surrounding open land, also Gezer with the surrounding open land, 53Yokme‘am with the surrounding open land, Beit-Horon with the surrounding open land, 54Ayalon with the surrounding open land, and Gat-Rimmon with the surrounding open land; 55and out of the half-tribe of M’nasheh: ‘Aner with the surrounding open land and Bil‘am with the surrounding open land, for the rest of the clans of the descendants of K’hat.
56The descendants of Gershom were given, from the clans of the half-tribe of M’nasheh: Golan in Bashan with the surrounding open land and ‘Ashtarot with the surrounding open land; 57and from the tribe of Yissakhar: Kedesh with the surrounding open land, Davrat with the surrounding open land, 58Ramot with the surrounding open land and ‘Anem with the surrounding open land; 59and from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with the surrounding open land, ‘Avdon with the surrounding open land, 60Hukok with the surrounding open land and Rechov with the surrounding open land; 61and from the tribe of Naftali: Kedesh in the Galil with the surrounding open land, Hamon with the surrounding open land and Kiryatayim with the surrounding open land.
62To the rest [of the L’vi’im], the descendants of M’rari, were given, from the tribe of Z’vulun: Rimmono with the surrounding open land and Tavor with the surrounding open land; 63and beyond the Yarden at Yericho, on the east side of the Yarden, they were given, from the tribe of Re’uven: Betzer in the desert with the surrounding open land, Yahatz with the surrounding open land, 64K’demot with the surrounding open land and Mefa‘at with the surrounding open land; 65and from the tribe of Gad: Ramot in Gil‘ad with the surrounding open land, Machanayim with the surrounding open land, 66Heshbon with the surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with the surrounding open land.
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