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## Numbers 3:17-20 in Context (Verses 14–23 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/numbers/3/14) ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
 
 [15 ](/kjv/numbers/3/15) Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/numbers/3/16) And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/numbers/3/17) And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/numbers/3/18) And these *are* the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/numbers/3/19) And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/numbers/3/20) And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These *are* the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/numbers/3/21) Of Gershon *was* the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these *are* the families of the Gershonites.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/numbers/3/22) Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, *even* those that were numbered of them *were* seven thousand and five hundred.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/numbers/3/23) The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
 
[Numbers 2](/kjv/numbers/2) [Numbers 4](/kjv/numbers/4)

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