KJV King James Version
Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari.
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Numbers 3:33
Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.
WEB World English Bible
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.
ASV American Standard Version
Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari.
Surrounding context — Numbers 3
30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites [shall be] Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
31 And their charge [shall be] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest [shall be] chief over the chief of the Levites, [and have] the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
33 Of Merari [was] the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these [are] the families of Merari.
34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [were] six thousand and two hundred.
35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari [was] Zuriel the son of Abihail: [these] shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.
36 And [under] the custody and charge of the sons of Merari [shall be] the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
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לִמְרָרִ֕יH4848 · me.ra.riMerariמִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙H4940 · mish.pa.chahfamilyהַמַּחְלִ֔יH4250 · mach.liMahliteוּמִשְׁפַּ֖חַתH4940 · mish.pa.chahfamilyהַמּוּשִׁ֑יH4188 · mu.shiMushiteאֵ֥לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseהֵ֖םH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥תH4940 · mish.pa.chahfamilyמְרָרִֽי׃H4848 · me.ra.riMerari
Cross-references
1 Chronicles 6:19The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these [are] the families of the Levites according to their fathers.1 Chronicles 23:21The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.Numbers 3:20And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These [are] the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
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