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1 ChroniclesChapter 23

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When David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
He gathered together all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.
The Levites thirty years old and older were counted, and the number of men, head by head, was thirty-eight thousand.
Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, six thousand were officers and judges,
four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for praise." [footnote: The sudden first person reflects David's own words, quoted here from his arrangements.]
David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, then Zetham and Joel—three in all.
The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran—three in all. These were the heads of the families of Ladan.
The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so they were counted as one family with one assignment. [footnote: Zizah is called Zina in the preceding verse; both spellings occur in the Hebrew text.]
The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.
The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart, he and his sons forever, to be consecrated as most holy, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to him, and to pronounce blessings in his name forever.
As for Moses the man of God, his sons were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.
The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
The sons of Gershom: Shebuel was the chief.
The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the chief.
The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first and Isshiah the second.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
Eleazar died leaving no sons, only daughters; their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.
The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth—three in all.
These were the sons of Levi by their families—the heads of families as they were registered, listed by name, head by head—those twenty years old and older who did the work of the service of the house of the LORD.
For David had said, "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.
So the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the articles used in its service."
For by David's final instructions, the sons of Levi were counted from twenty years old and older.
Their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the LORD: to care for the courts and the side rooms, for the purification of all the holy things, and for the work of the service of the house of God—
for the bread of the Presence, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, what is baked on the griddle and what is well mixed with oil, and for all measures of quantity and size.
They were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise in the evening,
and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons, and at the appointed feasts—according to the number prescribed for them, continually before the LORD.
So they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and of the sanctuary, and to assist their kinsmen the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the LORD.
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