Who
The youngest of Levi’s three sons (Exodus 6:16). His descendants, the Merarites, carried the heavy frame of the tabernacle in the wilderness: its boards, bars, pillars and sockets (Numbers 3:36–37), on wagons Moses gave them. In the land they received cities among Reuben, Gad and Zebulun (Joshua 21:7), and in David’s time Ethan led their singers (1 Chronicles 6:44). He is not the Merari, father of Judith, of a later age (Judith 8:1).
Key verses
- Exodus 6:16
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 one hundred thirty-seven years.
- Numbers 3:36
The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
Where the Bible names him
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