6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


In Context

3 And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges;

5 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

6 And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

7 Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.

8 The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

1 Chronicles 23:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:6David divided the Levites into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely,] Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:6And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:6And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:6David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:6And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.