Exodus 6:16

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“These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.”

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“These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.”

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“And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.”

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“And these <FI>are<Fi> the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi <FI>are<Fi> a hundred and thirty and seven years.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 6:16 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.
  2. Genesis 46:9The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
  3. Genesis 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  4. Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
  5. Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
  6. Exodus 6:18The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
  7. Exodus 6:20And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
  8. Numbers 3:17These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  9. Numbers 3:18These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
  10. Numbers 3:19The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
  11. Numbers 3:20And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.
  12. Numbers 3:21From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
  13. Numbers 16:1Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted
  14. Numbers 26:57Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
  15. Joshua 21:4The first lot came out for the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
  16. Joshua 21:6The descendants of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
  17. 1 Chronicles 6:1The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  18. 1 Chronicles 6:16The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
  19. 1 Chronicles 23:6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
  20. 2 Chronicles 29:12Then the Levites set to work: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah from the Kohathites; Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;
  21. Revelation 7:7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

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