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23 David was a very old man when he appointed his son Solomon to be the next king over Israel.
2 David gathered the leaders of Israel and the priests and other descendants of Levi. 3 He commanded some of his officials to count the descendants of Levi who were at least 30 years old, and they found out that there were 38,000 men. 4 Then David said, “From those descendants of Levi, I want 24,000 of them to supervise the work at the temple of Yahweh, 6,000 to be officials and judges, 5 4,000 to be guards at the gates, and 4,000 to praise Yahweh, using the musical instruments that I have provided for them.”
6 David divided the descendants of Levi into three groups; each group consisted of men who were descendants of one of the three sons of Levi—Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7 The descendants of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.
8 Ladan had three sons: the oldest Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel.
9 Shimei had three sons: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran.
They were leaders of the clans of Ladan.
10 Shimei’s sons were Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; four in total.
11 Jahath was the oldest son. Ziza was the second.
Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, so the officials counting the descendants of Levi counted the families of Jeush and Beriah as though they were one family.
12 Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
13 Amram’s sons were Aaron and Moses.
Yahweh chose Aaron, that is, Aaron and his descendants perpetually, to dedicate to Yahweh the very holy things, to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, to serve in his presence, and to declare to the people what Yahweh would do to bless them. They were to do those things forever.
14 The officials counting the descendants of Levi counted the descendants of Moses, the man who served God well, as part of the tribe of Levi.
15 Moses’ sons were Gershom and Eliezer.
16 The oldest son of Gershom was Shubael.
17 Eliezer’s oldest child was Rehabiah.
Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had many sons.
18 Izhar’s oldest son was Shelomith.
19 Hebron had four sons.
Jeriah was his oldest son; Amariah was the second; Jahaziel was the third; and Jekameam was the fourth.
20 Uzziel had two sons.
Micah was the older son, and Isshiah was the younger.
21 Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi.
Mahli’s sons were Eleazar and Kish.
22 Eleazar died without having sons; he only had daughters. Their cousins, Kish’s sons, married them.
23 Mushi had three sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth.
24 Those were the descendants of Levi that the officials counted according to the descendants’ families and the leaders of those families, as well as according to the descendants’ special jobs and the leaders of those jobs. They all worked in the temple of Yahweh. The officials counted each person who was at least 20 years old. 25 David had said previously, “Yahweh, the God to whom we Israelite people belong, has enabled us to have peace, and he has come to live in Jerusalem forever. 26 Therefore, the descendants of Levi no longer need to carry the sacred tent and all the items used in the work there.” 27 Obeying David’s final instructions before he died, instructions for doing the work at the temple, the officials counted the descendants of Levi who were at least twenty years old.
28 The work of those descendants of Levi was to assist the descendants of Aaron in their work in Yahweh’s temple. They were in charge of the temple courtyards and the side rooms, the ceremonies for purifying all the sacred things, and to do other work at the temple. 29 They were also in charge of the loaves of bread the priests placed each week on the table in the temple, the flour for the flour offerings, the wafers that were made without yeast, and the baking pans. The descendants of Levi also had to measure the ingredients, mix them, and bake the bread and wafers. 30 Another responsibility for the Levites was to stand every morning at the temple and thank Yahweh and praise him. They needed to do the same thing every evening as well. 31 And they needed to do the same thing at the presentation of fully burnt offerings to Yahweh on Sabbath days and during the new moon celebrations and other religious festivals. There were specific regulations about how many of them should be there and what they should do each time they served at Yahweh’s temple.
32 So the descendants of Aaron, their fellow Israelites, assigned the descendants of Levi certain responsibilities at the place where the Israelite people worshiped Yahweh. The descendants of Levi did that work at the sacred tent and in the holy place inside the tent.
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