11. And Yaḥath was the head and Zizah the second. But Ye‛ush and Beri‛ah did not have many sons, so they were reckoned as one father’s house.
12. The sons of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, Ḥeḇron, and Uzzi’ĕl, four.
13. The sons of Amram: Aharon and Mosheh. And Aharon was set apart, he and his sons forever, that he should set apart the most set-apart, to burn incense before יהוה, to serve Him, and to give the blessing in His Name forever.
14. Now Mosheh, the man of Elohim, his sons were named after the tribe of Lĕwi.
15. The sons of Mosheh: Gĕreshom and Eli‛ezer.
16. The sons of Gĕreshom: Sheḇu’ĕl was the head.
17. And the sons of Eli‛ezer: Reḥaḇyah was the head. And Eli‛ezer had no other sons, but the sons of Reḥaḇyah were very many.
18. The sons of Yitshar: Shelomith was the head.
19. The sons of Ḥeḇron: Yeriyahu was the head, Amaryah the second, Yaḥazi’ĕl the third, and Yeqam‛am the fourth.
20. The sons of Uzzi’ĕl: Miḵah was the head and Yishshiyah the second.
21. The sons of Merari: Maḥli and Mushi. The sons of Maḥli: El‛azar and Qish.
22. And El‛azar died, and had no sons, but only daughters. And their brothers, the sons of Qish, took them.
23. The sons of Mushi: Maḥli, Ěḏer, and Yerĕmoth, three.
24. These were the sons of Lĕwi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted head by head by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the House of יהוה, from the age of twenty years and above.
25. For Dawiḏ said, “יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Yerushalayim forever,”
26. and also of the Lĕwites, “They shall no longer bear the Dwelling Place, or any of the vessels for its service.”
27. For by the last words of Dawiḏ the Lĕwites were numbered from twenty years old and above,
28. because their duty was to help the sons of Aharon in the service of the House of יהוה, in the courtyards and in the rooms, in the cleansing of all that was set-apart, and the work of the service of the House of Elohim,