- verses
- 10
- first named
- Exodus 6:19
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:30
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Mushi?
Mushi was a Levite who lived during the time of Moses and the Exodus. He was the son of Merari, one of the three sons of Levi, and the grandson of Levi himself (Exo.6.19; Num.3.20; 1Ch.6.19,47). Mushi's descendants formed a clan within the Levitical tribe known as the Mushites (Num.3.33; 26.58).
As a member of the Levitical tribe, Mushi and his descendants were responsible for assisting the priests in the tabernacle and later in the temple. In the wilderness, the Mushites were specifically assigned to carry the frames, crossbars, posts, and bases of the tabernacle whenever the Israelites moved camp (Num.3.36-37).
The descendants of Mushi are mentioned in several genealogies in 1 Chronicles, which trace the lineage of the Levites. These passages highlight the importance of the Levitical clans in maintaining the religious life of ancient Israel (1Ch.23.21-23; 24.26,30).
Mushi's role as the head of a Levitical clan emphasizes the hereditary nature of the Levitical priesthood and the importance of family lineage in determining one's responsibilities within the religious system of ancient Israel. The Mushites, along with the other Levitical clans, played a vital role in supporting the priests and ensuring the proper functioning of the tabernacle and temple worship.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Child of
Father of
- Ederregistry1 Chronicles 24:30
- Jerimothregistry1 Chronicles 24:30
- Mahliregistry1 Chronicles 6:471 Chronicles 24:30
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
- Mahli1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
Not read yet
The pattern
Where Mushi is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
10 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (1), Numbers (3) and 1 Chronicles (6).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 10, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Sources