World English Bible
"David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari."
— 1 Chronicles 23:6, World English Bible
“And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.”
“And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ”
“David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.”
“And David distributed them into courses by the families of the sons of Levi, to wit, of Gerson, and of Caath, and of Merari.”
“And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.”
“And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.”
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;
four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.