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Kohath קְהָת
Levi's son. Kohath, son of Levi, was the ancestor of Moses and Aaron.
Also called Kohathite.
Family
Where Kohath appears
Numbers (16), 1 Chronicles (15), Joshua (5), 2 Chronicles (3), Exodus (2), Genesis (1)
Key verses
- Genesis 46:11 first mention — And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 6:16 — And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
- Numbers 3:17 — And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
- Numbers 3:19 — And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- Numbers 4:15 — And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
- Numbers 7:9 — But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.
- Numbers 16:1 — Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took
- Numbers 26:57 — And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
- 1 Chronicles 6:1 — The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33 — And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
- 1 Chronicles 23:6 — And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 23:12 — The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.