These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kehat, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.
These are the families of Levi: the family of the Livni, the family of the Chevroni, the family of the Machli, the family of the Mushi, the family of the Korchi. Kehat became the father of `Amram.
Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Yissakhar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naftali, and out of the half-tribe of Menasheh in Bashan, thirteen cities.