2 Then David gathered all the Israeli officials and the priests and Levites. 3 Counting the Levite males that were thirty years old and older, they found there were thirty-eight thousand men. 4 David assigned twenty-four thousand of them to supervise the work at Yahweh’s temple, six thousand to be officials and judges, 5 four thousand to be gatekeepers, and four thousand to praise Yahweh using the musical instruments that he’d provided.

6 So David divided the Levites into divisions according to their ancestry through Levi’s sons Gershon, Kohat, and Merari.