³¹ These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.

³² They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.

³³ These are those who waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

³⁴ the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

³⁵ the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

³⁶ the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

³⁷ the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

³⁸ the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

³⁹ His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

⁴⁰ the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

⁴¹ the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

⁴² the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

⁴³ the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

⁴⁴ On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

⁴⁵ the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

⁴⁶ the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

⁴⁷ the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

⁴⁸ Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

⁴⁹ But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

⁵⁰ These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

⁵¹ Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

⁵² Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

⁵³ Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

⁵⁴ Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the [first] lot),

⁵⁵ to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it;

⁵⁶ but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

⁵⁷ To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

⁵⁸ and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,

⁵⁹ and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs;

⁶⁰ and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

⁶¹ To the rest of the sons of Kohath [were given] by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

⁶² To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

⁶³ To the sons of Merari [were given] by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

⁶⁴ The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.

⁶⁵ They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

⁶⁶ Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁷ They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,

⁶⁸ and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs,

⁶⁹ and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath Rimmon with its suburbs;

⁷⁰ and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom [were given], out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;

⁷² and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,

⁷³ and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs;

⁷⁴ and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,

⁷⁵ and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;

⁷⁶ and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.

⁷⁷ To the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari, [were given], out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;

⁷⁸ and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, [were given them], out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs,

⁷⁹ and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;

⁸⁰ and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,

⁸¹ and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

¹ Of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

² The sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, [to wit], of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations: their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

³ The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. The sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

⁴ With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.

⁵ Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.

⁶ [The sons of] Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

⁷ The sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.

⁸ The sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

⁹ They were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valor, twenty thousand two hundred.

¹⁰ The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. The sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

¹¹ All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the army for war.

¹² Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.

¹³ The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

¹⁴ The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore Machir the father of Gilead:

¹⁵ and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah; and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

¹⁶ Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she named him Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

¹⁷ The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

¹⁸ His sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

¹⁹ The sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

²⁰ The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

²¹ and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their livestock.

²² Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

²³ He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

²⁴ His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.

²⁵ Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

²⁶ Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,

²⁷ Nun his son, Joshua his son.

²⁸ Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

²⁹ and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

³⁰ The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

³¹ The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

³² Heber became the father of Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

³³ The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

³⁴ The sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

³⁵ The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

³⁶ The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

³⁷ Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

³⁸ The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

³⁹ The sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.

⁴⁰ All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.

¹ Benjamin became the father of Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

² Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

³ Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

⁴ and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

⁵ and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

⁶ These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath:

⁷ and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he became the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

⁸ Shaharaim became the father of children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

⁹ He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,

¹⁰ and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' [houses].

¹¹ Of Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

¹² The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

¹³ and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;

¹⁴ and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

¹⁵ and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,

¹⁶ and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah,

¹⁷ and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,

¹⁸ and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,

¹⁹ and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,

²⁰ and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,

²¹ and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,

²² and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,

²³ and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,

²⁴ and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,

²⁵ and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,

²⁶ and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

²⁷ and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.

²⁸ These were heads of fathers' [houses] throughout their generations, chief men: these lived in Jerusalem.