Numbers 3:20
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New International Version (©2011)
The Merarite clans: Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans, according to their families.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Merari's sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral houses.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Merari's descendants according to their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the descendants of Levi according to their ancestral house.

NET Bible (©2006)
The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Mahli and Mushi were the sons of Merari. Their families were named after them. These were the households of Levite families.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers houses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi.

Darby Bible Translation
And the sons of Merari according to their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

English Revised Version
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:14-39 The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Moses did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure any honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's chosen are but a little flock in comparison with the world.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the sons, of Merari, by their families,.... The third son of Levi:

Mahli and Mushi; the same as in Exodus 6:19; from whom were denominated the families of the Mahlites and Mushites, who, as the preceding families, were numbered at this time: these

are the families of the Levites, according to the house of their fathers; in all eight families.

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Registration of the Levites
…18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. 19And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of Levi according to their records.
Numbers 3:19 The Kohathite clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
Numbers 3:21 To Gershon belonged the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites; these were the Gershonite clans.
2 Chronicles 29:12 Then these Levites set to work: from the Kohathites, Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah; from the Merarites, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;