1 Chronicles 23:6–24

⁶David separated^l the Levites into divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi:^m Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

Gershonites

⁷Belonging to the Gershonites:ⁿ

Ladan and Shimei.

⁸The sons of Ladan:

Jehiel the first, Zetham and Joel—three in all.

⁹The sons of Shimei:

Shelomoth, Haziel and Haran—three in all.

These were the heads of the families of Ladan.

¹⁰And the sons of Shimei:

Jahath, Ziza,^a Jeush and Beriah.

These were the sons of Shimei—four in all.

¹¹Jahath was the first and Ziza the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; so they were counted as one family with one assignment.

Kohathites

¹²The sons of Kohath:^o

Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel—four in all.

¹³The sons of Amram:^p

Aaron and Moses.

Aaron was set apart,^q he and his descendants forever, to consecrate the most holy things, to offer sacrifices before the Lord, to minister^r before him and to pronounce blessings^s in his name forever. ¹⁴The sons of Moses the man^t of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.

¹⁵The sons of Moses:

Gershom and Eliezer.^u

¹⁶The descendants of Gershom:^v

Shubael was the first.

¹⁷The descendants of Eliezer:

Rehabiah^w was the first.

Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

¹⁸The sons of Izhar:

Shelomith^x was the first.

¹⁹The sons of Hebron:^y

Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁰The sons of Uzziel:

Micah the first and Ishiah the second.

Merarites

²¹The sons of Merari:^z

Mahli and Mushi.^a

The sons of Mahli:

Eleazar and Kish.

²²Eleazar died without having sons: he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.^b

²³The sons of Mushi:

Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth—three in all.

²⁴These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more^c who served in the temple of the Lord.