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20 The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their families.[a]

21 To Gershon belonged[b] the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites. 22 The ones counted[c] according to the number of every male from one month[d] and above were seven thousand five hundred.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:20 Literally “the house of their fathers”
  2. Numbers 3:21 Literally “To Gershon was”
  3. Numbers 3:22 Literally “the ones counted of them,” or “the ones mustered of them”
  4. Numbers 3:22 Literally “the son of a month and above”

20 The Merarite clans:(A)

Mahli and Mushi.(B)

These were the Levite clans, according to their families.

21 To Gershon(C) belonged the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites;(D) these were the Gershonite clans. 22 The number of all the males a month old or more who were counted was 7,500.

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