Exodus 6:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

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Highlights

2 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible

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וּמוּשִׁ֑י

Mûwshîy

H4187

“and · Mushi”

Conjunction + Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears here

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4184

TWOT: None

Mushi = "yielding" - son of Merari, grandson of Kohath, and great grandson of Levi

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וּמוּשִׁ֑י Mushi H4187 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

First appearance in Scripture

These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

מַחְלִ֣י Mahli H4249
וּמוּשִׁ֑י Mushi H4187

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּמוּשִׁ֑י Mushi H4187 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

7 nouns
1 pronoun

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 21 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 13 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 6:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 3:20 The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
1 Chronicles 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' [houses].
1 Chronicles 23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 6:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְנֵ֥י מְרָרִ֖י מַחְלִ֣י וּמוּשִׁ֑י אֵ֛לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַלֵּוִ֖י לְתֹלְדֹתָֽם

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 6:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί υἱός μεραρι μοολι καί ομουσι οὗτος οἶκος πάτριος λευί κατά συγγένεια αὐτός

And the sons of Merari, Mooli, and Omusi, these are the houses of the families of Levi, according to their kindred.

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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנֵי מְרָרִי מַחְלִי וּמוּשִׁי אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת לֵוִי לְתוּלְדָתְהוֹן:

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּבְנוֹי דִמְרָרִי מַחְלִי וּמוּשִׁי אִלֵין יְחוּסִין דְלֵוִי לִגְנִסְתְּהוֹן

And the sons of Merari, Mahali and Mushi; these are the race of Levi according to the generations.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 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

19. Maḥli and Mushi] Cf. Num_3:20; Num_3:33, 1Ch_6:19.

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.

The Pulpit Commentary

The sons of Merari. The same names occur in 1Ch_6:19 and 1Ch_23:21, Mahali, by a difference of pointing, becoming Mahli. The Mahlites and Mushites were among the most important of the Levitical families. (Num_3:33 Num_26:58)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the sons of Izhar, Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. These seem to be mentioned for the sake of Korah, concerning whom is a remarkable history in the following book; for the other two are nowhere else spoken of.

And the sons of Izhar, Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. These seem to be mentioned for the sake of Korah, concerning whom is a remarkable history in the following book; for the other two are nowhere else spoken of.

Exodus 6:22

exo 6:22

exo 6:22

exo 6:22And the sons of Uzziel, Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zichri. The two first of these were the men that were ordered by Moses to carry out of the camp the two sons of Aaron, who were killed by lightning for offering strange fire, Lev 10:4.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, 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.

Discussion questions

What does “Mushi” (Mûwshîy) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Numbers 3:20 shares the word «Mushi» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.