Wycliffe(i)
17 Sotheli the porteris weren Sellum, and Achub, and Thelmon, and Achyman, and the britheren of hem; Sellum was the prince;
18 til to that tyme thei kepten bi her whilis in the yate of the kyng at the eest, of the sones of Leuy.
19 Sellum forsothe, the sone of Chore, sone of Abiasaph, sone of Chore, with hise britheren, and with the hows of his fadir; these ben the sones of Chore on the werkis of the seruyce, keperis of the porchis of the tabernacle, and the meynees of hem kepten bi whilis the entryng of the castelis of the Lord.
20 Forsothe Phynees, the sone of Eleazar, was the duyk of hem bifor the Lord.
21 Sotheli Zacarie, the sone of Mosollam, was porter of the yate of the tabernacle of witnessyng.
22 Alle these chosun in to porteris bi yatis weren twei hundrid and twelue, and weren discryued in her owne townes, which dekenes Dauid and Samuel, the prophete, ordeyneden in her feith,
23 both hem and the sones of hem in the doris of the hows of the Lord, and in the tabernacle of witnessyng, bi her whiles.
24 Porteris weren bi foure coostis, that is, at the eest, and at the west, and at the north, and at the south.
25 Forsothe her britheren dwelliden in townes, and camen in her sabatis fro tyme til to tyme.
26 Al the noumbre of porteris was bitakun to these foure dekenes, and thei kepten the chaumbris, and the tresours of the hows of the Lord.
27 Also thei dwelliden in her kepyngis bi the cumpas of the temple of the Lord, that whanne tyme were, thei schulden opene the yatis eerli.