And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Parallel translations
- WEB The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- BSB The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- NKJV And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- NASB and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel;
- NLT The clans descended from Kohath were named after four of his descendants, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
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Quick answer
Kohath's sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. These headed the Kohathite families, the line of Moses and Aaron.
Overview
The Kohathite branch is detailed, with Amram being the father of Moses and Aaron. This made the Kohathites the clan from which the priesthood itself sprang, giving them charge of the most holy objects. The genealogy quietly highlights the honored place of this family in God's redemptive purposes.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 6:18And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
- 1 Chr 6:18And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 1 Chr 23:12–13The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
- 1 Chr 25:4Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:
- 1 Chr 6:38The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
- 1 Chr 26:1–32Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
- 1 Chr 15:5Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:
- Neh 12:1–26Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Exod 6:20And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
- 1 Chr 23:18–20Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.
- 1 Chr 15:17–21So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
- 1 Chr 15:8–10Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:
- Num 3:27And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
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