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

¹⁹ And the sons of Merari `are' Mahli and Mushi: these `are' families of Levi, as to their births.

²¹ Sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

³⁴ And for the families of the sons of Merari, the Levites, who are left, `are,' out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its suburbs, Kartah and its suburbs,

³⁵ Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs -- four cities.

³⁶ And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and Jahazah and its suburbs,

³⁷ Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs -- four cities.

³⁸ And out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge `for' the man-slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,

³⁹ Heshbon and its suburbs, Jazer and its suburbs -- `in' all four cities.

⁴⁰ All the cities for the sons of Merari, for their families, who are left of the families of the Levites -- their lot is twelve cities.

⁷ For the sons of Merari, for their families, `are', out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

¹⁷ And the tabernacle hath been taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle.

⁸ and the four of the waggons and the eight of the oxen he hath given to the sons of Merari, according to their service, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest;

⁴² And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers,

³³ Of Merari `is' the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these `are' the families of Merari.

³⁴ And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, `are' six thousand and two hundred.

³⁵ And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari `is' Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward.

³⁶ And the oversight -- the charge of the sons of Merari -- `is' the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service,

²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families `are' Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

²⁸ for their station `is' at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of Jehovah, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the cleansing of every holy thing, and the work of the service of the house of God,