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1 The sonnes of Leui: Gersom, Caath, and Merari.
2 The sonnes of Caath: Amram, Izahar, Hebron, & Uzziel.
3 The childre of Amram: Aaron, Moyses, & Miriam. The sonnes also of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
4 Eleazar begat Phinehes, Phinehes begat Abisua.
5 Abisua begat Boki, Boki begat Uzzi,
6 Uzzi begat Zarahia, Zarahia begat Meraioth,
7 Meraioth begat Amaria, and Amaria begat Ahitob,
8 Ahitob begat Zadoc, and Zadoc begat Ahimaaz,
9 Ahimaaz begat Azaria: and Azaria begat Iohonan,
10 Iohonan begat Azaria, whiche ministred in the temple that Solomon buylt in Hierusalem.
11 Azaria begat Amaria, Amaria begat Ahitob,
12 Ahitob begat Zadoc, and Zadoc begat Sallum,
13 Sallum begat Helkia, and Helkia begat Azaria.
14 Azaria begat Saraia, and Saraia begat Iehozedech,
15 And Iehozedech departed when the Lorde caryed away Iuda and Hierusalem by the hand of Nabuchodonoser.
16 The sonnes of Leui: Gersom, Caath, and Merari.
17 And these be the names of the sonnes of Gersom: Libni, and Simhi.
18 And the sonnes of Caath were: Amram, Izahar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
19 The sonnes of Merari: Mahali, and Musi: and these are the kinredes of Leui concerning their fathers.
20 The sonne of Gersom was Libni, whose sonne was Iahath, & his sonne Zemma.
21 And his sonne Ioah, and his sonne Iddo, and his sonne Zerah, and his sonne Ieathrai.
22 The sonnes of Caath: Aminadab, and his sonne Korah, and his sonne Assir,
23 And his sonne Elcana, and his sonne Ebiasaph, and his sonne Assir,
24 And Thahath was his sonne, and Uriel his sonne, and Uzzia his sonne, and Saul was his sonne.
25 The sonnes of Elcana: Amasai and Ahimoth.
26 And Elcana: The sonnes of Elcana, Zophai, whose sonne was Nahath,
27 And his sonne Eliab, and Ieroham his sonne, and Elcana his sonne,
28 And the sonnes of Samuel: the eldest Uasui, and Abia.
29 The sonnes of Merari: Mahali, & his sonne Libni, and his sonne Sunhi, and his sonne Uzza,
30 And his sonne Simha, and his sonne Haggia, and his sonne Asaia.
31 And these be they whom Dauid set for to sing in the house of the Lorde, after that the arke had rest.
32 And they ministred before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, vntill Solomon had buylt the house of the Lorde in Hierusalem: and then they wayted on their offices, according to the order of them.
33 These are they that wayted with their children, of the sonnes of Caath, Heman a singer, whiche was the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Samuel,
34 The sonne of Elcana, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Eliel, the sonne of Thoah,
35 The sonne of Zuph, the sonne of Elcana, the sonne of Mahath, ye sonne of Amasai,
36 The sonne of Elcana, the sonne of Ioel, the sonne of Azaria, the sonne of Zephania.
37 The sonne of Thahath, the sonne of Assyr, the sonne of Ebiasaph, the sonne of Korah,
38 The sonne of Izahar, the sonne of Caath, the sonne of Leui, the sonne of Israel:
39 And his brother Asaph stoode on his right hande, and Asaph was the sonne of Barachia, the sonne of Simha,
40 The sonne of Michael, the sonne of Baasa, the sonne of Melchia,
41 The sonne of Athan, the sonne of Zarah, the sonne of Adaia,
42 The sonne of Ethan, the sonne of Zimma, the sonne of Simhi,
43 The sonne of Iahath, the sonne of Gecsom, the sonne of Leui.
44 And their brethren the sonnes of Merari stoode on the left hand, euen Ethan the sonne of Kisi, the sonne of Abdi, the sonne of Maluch,
45 The sonne of Hazabia, the sonne of Amazia, the sonne of Helkia,
46 The sonne of Amzi, the sonne of Bani, the sonne of Samer,
47 The sonne of Mahli, the sonne of Musi, the sonne of Merari, the sonne of Leui.
48 Their brethren also the Leuites were appoynted vnto all maner of seruice of the tabernacle of the house of God.
49 But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the aulter of burnt offering, and on the aulter of incense [and were appoynted] for all that was to do in the place most holy, and to make an attonement for them of Israel, according to all that Moyses the seruaunt of God had commaunded.
50 These are the sonnes of Aaron: Eleazar his sonne, whose sonne was Phinehes, and his sonne Abisua,
51 And his sonne Bocci, whose sonne was Uzzi, and his sonne Zerahiah,
52 And the sonne of him Maraioth, and his sonne Amaria, and the sonne of him Ahitob,
53 And Zadoc his sonne, and Ahimaaz his sonne.
54 And these are the dwelling places of them througout their townes & coastes, euen of the sonnes of Aaron throughout the kinredes of the Caathites: for so the lot fell for them.
55 And they gaue them Hebron in the land of Iuda, and the suburbes thereof rounde about it.
56 But the fieldes of the citie and the villages pertayning thereto, they gaue to Caleb the sonne of Iephune.
57 And to the sonnes of Aaron they gaue the cities of refuge, euen Hebron and Libna with their suburbes, Iathir and Esthemoa with their suburbes:
58 And Hilen with her suburbes, and Dabir with her suburbes,
59 Asan and her suburbes, Bethsemes and her suburbes.
60 And out of the tribe of Beniamin, Geba and her suburbes, Alemeth and her suburbes, Anathoth and her suburbes: all their cities throughout their kinredes were thirteene.
61 And vnto the sonnes of Caath the remnaunt of the kynrede of the tribe, were cities geuen out of the halfe tribe of Manasse by lot, euen ten cities.
62 And the sonnes of Gersom throughout their kinredes, had out of the tribe of Isachar, out of the tribe of Aser, & out of the tribe of Nephthali, and out of the tribe Manassem Basan, thirteene cities.
63 And vnto the sonnes of Merari were geuen by lot throughout their kinredes out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon, twelue cities.
64 And the children of Israel gaue the Leuites cities with their suburbes,
65 And that by lot, out of the tribe of the children of Iuda, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Beniamin, these cities, whiche they called by their names.
66 And they [that were] of the kinredes of the sonnes of Caath, had cities & their coastes out of the tribe of Ephraim.
67 And they gaue vnto them cities of refuge: Sichem in mount Ephraim and her suburbes, Gaser and her suburbes,
68 Iocmeam and her suburbes, Bethhoron and her suburbes,
69 Aialon and her suburbes, Geth Rimmon and her suburbes.
70 And out of the halfe tribe of Manasse, Auer and her suburbes, and Bileam and her suburbes, for the kinred of the remnaunt of the sonnes of Caath.
71 And vnto the sonnes of Gersom were geuen out of the kinred of the halfe tribe of Manasse: Golon in Basan and her suburbes, and Astharoth and her suburbes.
72 Out of the tribe of Isachar, Kedes, and her suburbes, Dabrath and her suburbes,
73 Ramoth also and her suburbes, Anem and her Suburbes.
74 And out of Aser, Masal and her suburbes, Abdon and her suburbes,
75 Hukock and her suburbes, Rehob and her suburbes.
76 Out of the tribe of Nephthali, Kedes in Galilea and her suburbes, Hammon and her suburbes, Kiriathaim and her suburbes.
77 And vnto the rest of the children of Merari were geuen out of the tribe of Zabulon, Rimmon and her suburbes, Thabor and her suburbes.
78 And on the other syde Iordane by Iericho, euen on the east syde of Iordane, [were geuen them] out of the tribe of Ruben, Bezer in the wildernesse with her suburbes, Iahzah with her suburbes,
79 Kedemoth also with her suburbes: Mephaath with her suburbes.
80 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth [in] Gilead with her Suburbes, Mahanaim with her suburbes,
81 Hesbon with her suburbes, and Iazer with her suburbes.
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