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Exodus 6:16

Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; they were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. Levi lived 137 years.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aaron;   Genealogy;   Gershon;   Kohath;   Levi;   Scofield Reference Index - Separation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gershon;   Kohath;   Levi, Son of Jacob;   Merari;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Kohath;   Korah;   Levi;   Levites;   Merari;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Levite;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Incest;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Kohathites;   Levi;   Merari;   Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Genealogy;   Kohath;   Levi;   Levites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Father's House;   Gershon;   Kohathites;   Merari;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Kohath, Kohathites;   Merari, Merarites;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Israel in Egypt;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Merari, Merarites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Koliath;   Korah;   Levi;   Moses;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ger'shon;   Ko'hath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Exodus, the Book of;   Genealogy;   Gershon;   Kohath;   Korah;   Life;   Merari;   Mooli;   Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aaron;   Kohath;   Levi;   Levi ;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kehat, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
King James Version
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Lexham English Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years.
New Century Version
Levi lived one hundred thirty-seven years. These are the names of his sons according to their family history: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
New English Translation
Now these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (The length of Levi's life was 137 years.)
Amplified Bible
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their births: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and Levi lived a hundred and thirty-seven years.
New American Standard Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was 137 years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
These also are the names of the sonnes of Leui in their generations: Gershon & Kohath and Merari (and the yeres of the life of Leui were an hundreth thirtie and seuen yere)
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the years of Levi's life were 137 years.
Contemporary English Version
Levi lived to be one hundred thirty-seven; his sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Complete Jewish Bible
These are the names of the sons of Levi with their descendants: Gershon, K'hat and M'rari. Levi lived to be 137 years old.
Darby Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Easy-to-Read Version
Levi lived 137 years. His sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
English Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years.
George Lamsa Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Christian Standard Bible®
These are the names of the sons of Levi
Literal Translation
And these were the names of the sons of Levi by their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the names of the childre of Leui in their generacios: Gerson, Rahath and Merari: Leui was an hundreth and seuen & thirtie yeare olde.
American Standard Version
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.
Bible in Basic English
And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These also are the names of the chyldren of Leui in their generations: Gerson, and Cehath, and Merari: Leui liued an hundred thirtie and seuen yere.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.
King James Version (1611)
And these are the names of the sonnes of Leui, according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the yeeres of the life of Leui, were an hundred, thirtie and seuen yeeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their kindreds, Gedson, Caath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven.
English Revised Version
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Berean Standard Bible
These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And these ben the names of the sones of Leuy by her kynredis, Gerson, and Caath, and Merary. Forsothe the yeeris of lijf of Leuy weren an hundrid and seuene and thretti.
Young's Literal Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi [are] a hundred and thirty and seven years.
Update Bible Version
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.
Webster's Bible Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi [were] a hundred and thirty-seven years.
World English Bible
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
New King James Version
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven.
New Living Translation
These are the descendants of Levi, as listed in their family records: The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (Levi lived to be 137 years old.)
New Life Bible
These are the names of Levi's sons by their family groups: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
New Revised Standard
The following are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, and the length of Levi's life was one hundred thirty-seven years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, these, are the names of the sons of Levi by their generations, Gershon, and Kohath and Merari, And, the years of the life of Levi, were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And these are the names of the sons of Levi by their kindreds: Gerson, and Caath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty- seven.
Revised Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merar'i, the years of the life of Levi being a hundred and thirty-seven years.
THE MESSAGE
These are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their birth: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

Contextual Overview

14 Reuben, Jacob's first-born, had four sons: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; they were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. 15 Simeon had six sons: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; they were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. 16 Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; they were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. Levi lived 137 years. 17 Gershon had two sons: Libni and Shimei, and they had many descendants. 18 Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years. 19 Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi with their descendants. 20 Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years. 21 Izhar had three sons: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 Uzziel also had three sons: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon; she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sons: Genesis 46:11, Numbers 3:17, 1 Chronicles 6:1, 1 Chronicles 6:16

Kohath: Numbers 26:57, 1 Chronicles 23:6

an hundred: Exodus 6:18, Exodus 6:20, Genesis 35:28, Genesis 47:28, Genesis 50:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:4 - the generations Exodus 2:1 - of the house Numbers 17:3 - General Joshua 21:5 - General Joshua 21:6 - General 1 Chronicles 6:43 - Gershom 1 Chronicles 15:4 - the children of Aaron 2 Chronicles 29:12 - Kohathites Ecclesiastes 1:4 - One generation Zechariah 12:13 - Levi Revelation 7:7 - Levi

Cross-References

Genesis 7:16
as God had commanded. Then the Lord shut the door behind Noah.
Genesis 8:6
After forty days Noah opened a window
2 Samuel 6:16
As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him.
2 Kings 9:30
Jehu arrived in Jezreel. Jezebel, having heard what had happened, put on eye shadow, arranged her hair, and stood looking down at the street from a window in the palace.
Ezekiel 41:16
were all paneled with wood from the floor to the windows. These windows could be covered.
Ezekiel 42:3
On one side it faced the space 34 feet wide which was alongside the Temple, and on the other side it faced the pavement of the outer courtyard. It was built on three levels, each one set further back than the one below it.
Luke 13:25
The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!' he will answer you, ‘I don't know where you come from!'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations,.... Whose sons, according to the order of their birth, were as follow:

Gershom, and Kohath, and Merari; see Genesis 46:11:

and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty seven years; and exactly the same number of years is assigned him by Polyhistor from Demetrius c, an Heathen writer. Jarchi says, that the reason why, the years of the life of Levi are reckoned is to show how long the bondage lasted; for there was no servitude as long as any of the tribes (or of the sons of Jacob) remained, according to Exodus 1:6 and the Jewish chronologers d affirm that Levi was the last of the patriarchs that died; and that he died in the year of the world 3332, and lived in Egypt ninety four years; and from his time, to the going out of Egypt, were only one hundred and sixteen years; and they further say the bondage could not last longer than one hundred and sixteen years, nor shorter than eighty seven. Bishop Usher e places his death in A. M. 2385, and before Christ 1619: according to the Targum of Jonathan, he lived to see Moses and Aaron the deliverers of Israel; but that is false, since Joseph and all his brethren died before Moses was born, Exodus 1:6.

c Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 21. p. 425. d Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 5. 1. Tzemach David, par. 1, fol. 6. 2. & 7. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 3. p. 9. e Annales Vet. Test. p. 17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 6:16. The years of the life of Levi — "Bishop Patrick observes that Levi is thought to have lived the longest of all Jacob's sons, none of whose ages are recorded in Scripture but his and Joseph's, whom Levi survived twenty-seven years, though he was much the elder brother. By the common computation this would be twenty-three years: by Kennicott's computation at the end of Gen. xxxi., (Exodus 6:16- :) Levi's birth is placed twenty-four years before that of Joseph; his death, therefore, would be only three years later. But this is not the only difficulty in ancient chronologies. Kohath, the second son of Levi, according to Archbishop Usher was thirty years old when Jacob came into Egypt, and lived there one hundred and three years. He attained to nearly the same age with Levi, to one hundred and thirty-three years; and his son Amram, the father of Moses, lived to the same age with Levi. We may observe here how the Divine promise, Genesis 15:16, of delivering the Israelites out of Egypt in the fourth generation was verified; for Moses was the son of Amram, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Jacob." - DODD.


 
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