¹⁴The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai. He said, ¹⁵“Count the Levites by their family groups. Count every male who is a month old or more.” ¹⁶So Moses counted them. He did just as the word of the Lord had commanded him.

¹⁷The sons of Levi were

Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

¹⁸The major families from Gershon were

Libni and Shimei.

¹⁹The major families from Kohath were

Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

²⁰The major families from Merari were

Mahli and Mushi.

Those were the major families of the Levites.

²¹The families of Libni and Shimei belonged to the family of Gershon. ²²All of the males who were a month old or more were counted. There were 7,500 of them.

Read in Logos

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, “List the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.” So Moses listed them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded. And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.

To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites. Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7,500.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The Lord said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai, “Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more.” So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the Lord.

These were the names of the sons of Levi:

Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

These were the names of the Gershonite clans:

Libni and Shimei.

The Kohathite clans:

Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

The Merarite clans:

Mahli and Mushi.

These were the Levite clans, according to their families.

To Gershon belonged the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites; these were the Gershonite clans. The number of all the males a month old or more who were counted was 7,500.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai: “Register the Levites by their ancestral families and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.” So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:

These were Levi’s sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. These were the names of Gershon’s sons by their clans: Libni and Shimei. Kohath’s sons by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families.

The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans. Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord spoke again to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. He said, “Record the names of the members of the tribe of Levi by their families and clans. List every male who is one month old or older.” So Moses listed them, just as the Lord had commanded.

Levi had three sons, whose names were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The clans descended from Gershon were named after two of his descendants, Libni and Shimei.

The clans descended from Kohath were named after four of his descendants, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

The clans descended from Merari were named after two of his descendants, Mahli and Mushi.

These were the Levite clans, listed according to their family groups.

The descendants of Gershon were composed of the clans descended from Libni and Shimei. There were 7,500 males one month old or older among these Gershonite clans.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying, “Muster the descendants of Levi according to their families, according to their clans. You will count every male from one month and above.” So Moses mustered them according to the command of Yahweh, just as he commanded. These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath according to their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their families.

To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites. The ones counted according to the number of every male from one month and above were seven thousand five hundred.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded. And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 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.

Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

Public Domain