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1 So when Dauid was olde and full of dayes, he made Salomon hys sonne kynge ouer Israel.
2 And then he geathered togeather all the Lordes of Israel wyth the preastes and the Leuites.
3 And the Leuites were nombred from the age of .xxx. yeare and aboue, and the nombre and summe of them was .xxxviij. thousande men.
4 Of which .xxiiij. thousande were set to further the worcke of the house of the Lorde. And syxe thousande were offycers & Iudges.
5 Foure thousande were porters and foure thousande praysed the Lorde with soche instrumentes as was made to prayse wyth all.
6 And so Dauid put an ordre among them deuidinge them in partes. Of the children of Leui? Gerson, Cahath & Merari:
7 Of the Gersonites was Laadan & Semei.
8 The sonnes of Laadan the chefe was Iehiel, Zethan & Ioel, thre.
9 The sonnes of Semei: Selomith, Haziel, & Haran, thre. These were the auncient fathers of laadan.
10 And the sonnes of Semei were Iahath, Zina, Ieus & Beria: these foure were the sonnes of Semei.
11 And Iahath was the chefe, Zina the seconde. But Ieus and Beria had not many sonnes, therfore they were in one rekenynge, accordyng to theyr fathers housholde rekened for one auncient housholde.
12 The sonnes of Cahath: Amram, Izahar, Hebron and Uziel, foure.
13 The sonnes of Amram: Aaron & Moses. And Aaron was separated, to haue the rule of the holy thynges in the place moost holye, he and hys sonnes for euer: and to burne incense before the Lorde, and to mynistre vnto him, & to blesse in his name for euer.
14 Moses also the man of God, and his chyldren, were named wyth the trybe of Leui.
15 The sonnes of Moses: Gerson and Eliezer.
16 Of the sonnes of Gerzon: Sebuel was the chefe.
17 The sonnes of Eliezer: Rehabia the chefe. And Eliezer had none other sonnes: But the sonnes of Rehabia were very manye.
18 The sonnes of Izahar: Salomith, the chefe.
19 The sonnes of Hebron: Ieriahu the fyrst, Amaria the seconde, Iahaziel the thirde, and Iecameam the fourth.
20 The sonnes of Uziel: Micha the fyrst, and Iesia the seconde.
21 The sonnes of Merari Mahli: and Musi. The sonnes of Mahli Eleazar and Cis.
22 And Eleazar dyed, and had no sonnes, but daughters, and their brethren the sonnes of Cis toke them.
23 The sonnes of Musi: Mahli, Eder, & Ieremoth, thre.
24 These are the chyldren of Leui after the houshold of theyr fathers, euen the auncient of the fathers according to theyr offyces, and after the nombre and somme of the names of them that dyd the worcke in the seruice of the house of the Lord, from the age of twentye yeares & aboue.