1 Chronicles 25:8

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ And they fell pebbles, by guards - the small as well as the great the discerner as the scholar.

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cast lots.
1 Chronicles 24:5; Leviticus 16:8; 1 Samuel 14:41; 1 Samuel 14:42; Proverbs 16:33; Acts 1:26
ward against ward.
1 Chronicles 24:31; 1 Chronicles 26:13; 1 Chronicles 26:16; Nehemiah 12:24
the teacher.Even among the twenty-four leaders, some were more expert than others; some were teachers, and others were scholars; but every one was taken by the solemn casting of lots, without any regard to these distinctions. Thus all things were disposed for the preserving of order, and avoiding all disputes about precedence: there being no respect had, in this divine distribution, to birth, but the younger in course preceded the elder.
1 Chronicles 15:22; 2 Chronicles 23:13