Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous
These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty
from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;