Bible Verses About Levites

"All the temple servants and the descendants of Shlomo's servants numbered 392

"The following went up from Tel-Melach, Tel-Harsha, K'ruv, Adon and Immer; but they could not state which fathers' clan they and their children belonged to, [so it was not clear] whether they were from Isra'el:

descendants of D'layah, descendants of Toviyah, and descendants of N'koda 642

and of the cohanim: descendants of Havayah, descendants of Hakotz, and descendants of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gil'adi and was named after them.

"These tried to locate their geneaolgical records, but they weren't found. Therefore they were considered defiled and were not allowed to serve as cohanim.

The Tirshata told them not to eat any of the especially holy food until a cohen appeared who could consult the urim and tumim.

"The entire assembly numbered 42,360,

not including their male and female slaves, of whom there were 7,337. They also had 245 male and female singers.

Their horses numbered 736; their mules, 245;

their camels, 435; and their donkeys, 6,720.

"Some from among the heads of fathers' clans made contributions for the work. The Tirshata contributed to the treasury a thousand gold darkmonim [twentyone pounds], fifty basins and 530 tunics for the cohanim.

Some of the heads of fathers' clans gave into the treasury for the work 20,000 gold darkmonim [420 pounds] and 2,200 silver manim [one-and-a-third tons].

The rest of the people gave 20,000 gold darkmonim, 2,000 silver manim [about one-and-a-quarter tons] and sixty-seven tunics for the cohanim.

"So the cohanim, the L'vi'im, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants and all Isra'el lived in their towns."

The L'vi'im were: Yeshua the son of Azanyah, Binui a descendant of Henadad, Kadmi'el,

and their kinsmen Sh'vanyah, Hodiyah, K'lita, P'layah, Hanan,

Mikha, Rechov, Hashavyah,

Zakur, Sherevyah, Sh'vanyah,

Hodiyah, Bani and B'ninu.

The leaders of the people: Par'osh, Pachat-Mo'av, 'Eilam, Zatu, Bani,

Buni, 'Azgad, B'vai,

Adoniyah, Bigvai, 'Adin,

Ater, Hizkiyah, 'Azur,

Hodiyah, Hashum, Betzai,

Harif, 'Anatot, Neivai,