Moff 1 CHR Chapter 23

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23 When David grew old, after a full life, he made Solomon his son king over Israel, 2 and summoned all the authorities of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 The Levites were registered from thirty years and upwards, and the total number of their males was thirty-eight thousand, 4 twenty-four thousand having to superintend the work of building the temple of the Eternal, six thousand acting as sheriffs and judges, 5 four thousand as warders, and four thousand praising the Eternal on "the musical instruments which I have made," said David, "for the service of praise." 6 David arranged them in divisions, after Gershom, Kohath, and Merari, the sons of Levi.

7 The Gershomites were Ladan and Shimei; 8 Ladan's three sons were Jehiel, the eldest, Zetham, and Joel, 9 while Shimei's three sons were Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran; 10 Shelomoth had four sons, Jahath, Ziza, Jeush, and Beriah; 11 Jahath was the eldest, Ziza the second son, but as Jeush and Beriah had not many sons they were counted together as a single family. 12 The Kohathites were four in number, Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 13 Amram's sons were Aaron and Moses; Aaron was set apart for a specially sacred consecration, that he and his sons should for all time burn incense before the Eternal, serving him, and in his name pronouncing the blessing for all time. 14 As for Moses the man of God, his sons were reckoned among the clan of

Levi. 15 The sons of Moses were Gershom and Eliezer; 16 Gershom's eldest son was Shubael, 17 and Eliezer's son was Rehabiah (a headman); Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a large number. 18 Izhar's son was Shelomoth (a headman); 19 Hebron's sons were Jeriah, the eldest, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth; 20 Uzziel's sons were Micah the eldest and Isshiah the second.

21 The Merarites were Mahli and Mushi; Mahli's sons were Eleazar and Kish; 22 Eleazar died, leaving no sons, only daughters, who were married to their cousins the sons of Kish. 23 Mushi's three sons were Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth.

24 Such were the Levites by families, the headmen among those who were registered individually, who worked in the service of the temple of the Eternal, from twenty years and upwards. 25 (For David said, "The Eternal the God of Israel has granted peace to his people, and he now dwells in Jerusalem for all time; 26 the Levites no longer require to carry the tent or any of the articles needed for its service.") 27 For by the last orders of David the Levites were registered from twenty years and upwards. 28 Their duty was to attend the sons of Aaron in the service of the temple of the Eternal, looking after the courts and the chambers and the cleansing of all that was sacred, also, in the service of the temple of God, 29 caring for the bread of the Presence, the flour for cereal-offerings, either unleavened wafers or cakes baked on the griddle or pastry, and looking after all the weights and measures, 30 standing every morning and evening to thank and praise the Eternal, and presiding before the Eternal for all time 31 at every burnt-offering to the Eternal, as prescribed in due number on the sabbaths, at the new moon, and on the standing festivals; 32 they had charge of the Trysting tent, of the sacred ritual, and of all that their fellows the sons of Aaron required to have done in the service of the temple of the Eternal.

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Moff 1 CHR Chapter 23

Moff 1 CHR Chapter 23