The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.
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The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers:
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' `houses'.
The sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their father’s houses.
The sonnes of Merari, Mahli and Mushi: and these are the families of Leui concerning their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Moholi and Musi. And these are the kindreds of Levi according to their families.
Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these `are' families of the Levite according to their fathers;
Sons of Merari; Mahli and Mushi. And these [are] families of the Levite according to their fathers;
The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of Levi according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households.
The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.
The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites listed in order according to their fathers:
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.
(6-4) The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּמֻשִׁ֑י Mushi H4187 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּמֻשִׁ֑י Mushi H4187 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 8 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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בְּנֵ֥י מְרָרִ֖י מַחְלִ֣י וּמֻשִׁ֑י וְאֵ֛לֶּה מִשְׁפְּח֥וֹת הַלֵּוִ֖י לַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
World English Bible · Public Domain
υἱός ελκανα υἱός ηδαδ υἱός ελιηλ υἱός θιε
The sons of Merari; Mooli and Musi: and these are the families of Levi, according to their families.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Mûwshîy (“Mushi”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 6:19 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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