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

New Living Translation
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
And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.

Berean Standard Bible
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers’ houses.

New American Standard Bible
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

NASB 1995
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

NASB 1977
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Legacy Standard Bible
and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.

Amplified Bible
and the [two] sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers’ households.

Christian Standard Bible
Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral families.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Merari’s sons by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the Levite clans by their ancestral houses.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the sons of Merari for their tribes: Makhli and Mushi; these are the families of Levi according to the house of their fathers.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and the sons of Merari according to their families, Mooli and Musi; these are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their families.

Contemporary English Version
And Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. These were the sons and grandsons of Levi, and they had become the leaders of the Levite clans.

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

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.

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

International Standard Version
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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

Literal Standard Version
And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

Majority Standard Bible
And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.

New American Bible
The sons of Merari, by their clans, were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites by their ancestral houses.

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

New Revised Standard Version
The sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their ancestral houses.

New Heart English Bible
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.

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Context
The Registration of the Levites
19The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.

Cross References
Exodus 6:19
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their records.

Numbers 3:19
The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Numbers 3:21
From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.

2 Chronicles 29:12
Then the Levites set to work: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah from the Kohathites; Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;


Treasury of Scripture

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.

Numbers 3:33
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

Exodus 6:19
And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

1 Chronicles 6:19,29,44-47
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers…

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Numbers 3
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5. The Levites are given to the priests instead of the firstborn
14. Are numbered by their families
21. The families, number, and charge of the Gershonites
27. Of the Kohathites
33. Of the Merarites
38. The place and charge of Moses and Aaron
40. The firstborn are freed by the Levites
44. The balances are refunded
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the sons
וּבְנֵ֧י (ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Merari
מְרָרִ֛י (mə·rā·rî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4847: Merari -- a son of Levi

by their clans
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם (lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

were Mahli
מַחְלִ֣י (maḥ·lî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4249: Mahli -- a Levite, also a son of Mushi

and Mushi.
וּמוּשִׁ֑י (ū·mū·šî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4187: Mushi -- 'sensitive', a Levite

These
אֵ֥לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

were
הֵ֛ם (hêm)
Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They

the clans
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת (miš·pə·ḥōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

of the Levites,
הַלֵּוִ֖י (hal·lê·wî)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3881: Levites -- descendant of Levi

according to their families.
אֲבֹתָֽם׃ (’ă·ḇō·ṯām)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father


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