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


In Context

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

4 David said, |Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;

5 four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.|

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

7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, 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 Darby Bible Translation 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 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.