Of Jedu´thun: the sons of Jedu´thun; Gedali´ah, and Zeri, and Jeshai´ah, Hashabi´ah, and Mattithi´ah, six, under the hands of their father Jedu´thun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.
Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Ama´sai, and Joel the son of Azari´ah, of the sons of the Ko´hathites: and of the sons of Mera´ri; Kish the son of Abdi, and Azari´ah the son of Jehal´elel: and of the Ger´shonites; Jo´ah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Jo´ah:
both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Mera´ri: and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.