Genesis 46:11
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46:11 in other translations
| BSB | The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
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| WEB | The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| ASV | And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| YLT | And sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| DARBY | — And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
| BBE | And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; |
| Webster | And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. |
What does Genesis 46:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 46:8-27
8-27. all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten--Strictly speaking, there were only sixty-six went to Egypt; but to these add Joseph and his two sons, and Jacob the head of the clan, and the whole number amounts to seventy. In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 46:5-27
We have here a particular account of Jacob's family. Though the fulfilling of promises is always sure, yet it is often slow. It was now 215 years since God had promised Abraham to make of him a great nation, ch. 12:2; yet that branch of his seed, to which the promise was made sure, had only increased to seventy, of whom this particular account is kept, to show the power of God in making these seventy become a vast…
Genesis 46:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 46:11
- Genesis 29:34
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
- Numbers 3:17-22
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. …
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- Exodus 6:16
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.
- 1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- Numbers 26:57-58
And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
- Genesis 49:5-7
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 22:1-19
Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. …
- 1 Chronicles 6:1-3
The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
- 1 Chronicles 2:11
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
- Deuteronomy 33:8-11
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
- Numbers 8:1-26
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses. And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the Lord had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick. …
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
29:34; 49:5-7; Ex 6:16; Nu 3:17-22; 4:1-49; 8:1-26; 26:57,58
De 33:8-11; 1Ch 2:1,11,16; 6:1-3; 22:1-26:32
Gershon. or, Gershom.
1Ch 6:16
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Context
- Genesis 46:10
And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
- Genesis 46:11
And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y los hijos de Leví: Gersón, y Coath, y Merari. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Et les fils de Lévi: Guershon, Kehath, et Merari. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Söhne Levis: Gerson, Kehath und Merari. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Filii Levi: Gerson et Caath et Merari. |