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What does Numbers 3:20 mean?
"The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses."
— Numbers 3:20 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
These were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
These are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were counted of them were seven thousand five hundred.
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Explanation
Numbers 3:20 is a simple genealogical notice: it tells us that Merari, one of the three sons of Levi, had two sons of his own—Mahli and Mushi—
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