Numbers 26:58

אֵלֶּה׀ מִשְׁפְּחֹת לֵוִי מִשְׁפַּחַת הַלִּבְנִי מִשְׁפַּחַת הַֽחֶבְרֹנִי מִשְׁפַּחַת הַמַּחְלִי מִשְׁפַּחַת הַמּוּשִׁי מִשְׁפַּחַת הַקָּרְחִי וּקְהָת הוֹלִד אֶת־עַמְרָֽם׃

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Hebrew

אֵ֣לֶּה׀ מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת לֵוִ֗י מִשְׁפַּ֨חַת הַלִּבְנִ֜י מִשְׁפַּ֤חַת הַֽחֶבְרֹנִי֙ מִשְׁפַּ֤חַת הַמַּחְלִי֙ מִשְׁפַּ֣חַת הַמּוּשִׁ֔י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַקָּרְחִ֑י וּקְהָ֖ת הוֹלִ֥ד אֶת־עַמְרָֽם׃

Greek (Septuagint)

οὗτοι δῆμοι υἱῶν Λευεί· δῆμος ὁ Λοβενεί, δῆμος ὁ Χεβρωνεί, δῆμος ὁ κόρε καὶ δῆμος ὁ Μουσεί. καὶ Καὰθ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἀμράμ·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Hæ sunt familiæ Levi: familia Lobni, familia Hebroni, familia Moholi, familia Musi, familia Core. At vero Caath genuit Amram:

Spanish

Estos también son clanes levitas: los libnitas, los hebronitas, los mahlitas, los musitas y los coreítas. De Coat nació Amram.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Estas son las familias de los Levitas: la familia de los Libnitas, la familia de los Hebronitas, la familia de los Mahalitas, la familia de los Musitas, la familia de los Coritas. Y Coath engendró á Amram.

English

These were the families of the Levites: The Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Now Kohath was the father of Amram,

✦ What the text says

Summary

Numbers 26:58 lists five clan names descending from Levi — Libnite, Hebronite, Mahlite, Mushite, and Korahite — and closes with the notice that Kohath fathered Amram. The verse functions as a genealogical summary connecting the Levite clan structure to the specific father-son link that leads toward Moses and Aaron's line.

Key words

mishpechot ("clans of", H4940, plural construct) — opens the verse, governing Levi and setting up the list as "the clans of Levi."
mishpachat ("clan of", H4940, singular construct, repeated 5×) — each clan name is introduced by this same construct form, followed by a gentilic noun bearing the definite article ha- (H9009) rather than a bare genitive noun.
chevroni ("Hebronite", H2276, gentilic) — one of five "-ite" formations (Libni, Chevroni, Machli, Mushi, Qorchi) naming a people-group descended from an eponymous ancestor.
holid ("he fathered", H3205, Hiphil perfect 3ms) — the causative stem of yalad ("to bear"), used here for a male progenitor "causing to be born," i.e., fathering.
qehat / amram (H6955 / H6019G) — proper names marked by the object marker 'et (H0853) before Amram, showing Amram as the direct object of Kohath's act of fathering.

What the text says

The verse opens with the demonstrative 'elleh ("these", H0428) pointing back to what follows, then names the group as mishpechot Levi — "the clans of Levi" — using the plural construct form. The five clan names that follow are each introduced individually by the singular construct mishpachat ("clan of"), but instead of a normal genitive noun, each is followed by a gentilic noun carrying the definite article (ha-Livni, ha-Chevroni, etc.). This construct-plus-article pattern is a recognized construction in Biblical Hebrew where the head noun stays in construct form while the following noun retains its article, producing the sense "the clan of the Libnite [group]" rather than a strict possessive.

The final clause shifts from listing to narration: Qehat holid 'et-'Amram, "Kohath fathered Amram," using the Hiphil perfect of yalad, the standard causative form for a father generating a son in genealogical notices.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew lists five clans in the order Libnite, Hebronite, Mahlite, Mushite, Korahite. The LXX text given here names only four clans — Lobenei, Chebronei, Kore, Mousei — omitting an equivalent for the Mahlite clan, and it places Kore (Korahite) before Mousei (Mushite), reversing the Hebrew's fourth and fifth items. The Vulgate matches the Hebrew's five-clan order exactly (Lobni, Hebroni, Moholi, Musi, Core). The LXX also renders "Levi" as "sons of Levi" (υἱῶν Λευεί), an addition not present in the Hebrew's simple Levi.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.