and their kindred the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.
David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi;
But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, doing all the work of the most holy place, to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
To the Gershomites according to their families were allotted thirteen towns out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.
To the rest of the Levites—the Merarite families—were given out of the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,