Font Size
Genesis 29:34
New International Version
Genesis 29:34
New International Version
34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me,(A) because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.[a](B)
Footnotes
- Genesis 29:34 Levi sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for attached.
Genesis 29:34
King James Version
Genesis 29:34
King James Version
34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.
Read full chapter
Genesis 29:34
New King James Version
Genesis 29:34
New King James Version
34 She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called [a]Levi.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Genesis 29:34 Lit. Attached
Numbers 3:9
New International Version
Numbers 3:9
New International Version
9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons;(A) they are the Israelites who are to be given wholly to him.[a]
Footnotes
- Numbers 3:9 Most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text; some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint (see also 8:16) to me
Numbers 3:9
King James Version
Numbers 3:9
King James Version
9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.
Read full chapter
Numbers 3:9
New King James Version
Numbers 3:9
New King James Version
9 And (A)you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are given entirely to [a]him from among the children of Israel.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Numbers 3:9 Sam., LXX Me
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
New International Version
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
New International Version
6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the Lord will choose,(A) 7 he may minister in the name(B) of the Lord his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
King James Version
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
King James Version
6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;
7 Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
New King James Version
Deuteronomy 18:6-7
New King James Version
6 “So if a Levite comes from any of your [a]gates, from where he (A)dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind (B)to the place which the Lord chooses, 7 then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God (C)as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Deuteronomy 18:6 towns
1 Chronicles 16:4
New International Version
1 Chronicles 16:4
New International Version
4 He appointed some of the Levites to minister(A) before the ark of the Lord, to extol,[a] thank, and praise the Lord, the God of Israel:
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 16:4 Or petition; or invoke
1 Chronicles 16:4
King James Version
1 Chronicles 16:4
King James Version
4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:
Read full chapter
1 Chronicles 16:4
New King James Version
1 Chronicles 16:4
New King James Version
4 And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to (A)commemorate, to thank, and to praise the Lord God of Israel:
Read full chapter
Ezra 7:7
New International Version
Ezra 7:7
New International Version
7 Some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.(A)
Ezra 7:7
King James Version
Ezra 7:7
King James Version
7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Read full chapter
Ezra 7:7
New King James Version
Ezra 7:7
New King James Version
7 (A)Some of the children of Israel, the priests, (B)the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and (C)the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.
Read full chapter
Ezra 8:15
New International Version
Ezra 8:15
New International Version
The Return to Jerusalem
15 I assembled them at the canal that flows toward Ahava,(A) and we camped there three days. When I checked among the people and the priests, I found no Levites(B) there.
Ezra 8:15
King James Version
Ezra 8:15
King James Version
15 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
Read full chapter
Ezra 8:15
New King James Version
Ezra 8:15
New King James Version
Servants for the Temple
15 Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the (A)sons of Levi there.
Read full chapter
Nehemiah 12:24
New International Version
Nehemiah 12:24
New International Version
24 And the leaders of the Levites(A) were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their associates, who stood opposite them to give praise and thanksgiving, one section responding to the other, as prescribed by David the man of God.(B)
Nehemiah 12:24
King James Version
Nehemiah 12:24
King James Version
24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.
Read full chapter
Nehemiah 12:24
New King James Version
Nehemiah 12:24
New King James Version
24 And the heads of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers across from them, to (A)praise and give thanks, (B)group[a] alternating with group, (C)according to the command of David the man of God.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Nehemiah 12:24 Lit. watch by watch
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.
New King James Version (NKJV) 
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.