1 Chronicles 23

Thomson^{(i) 1} When David was old and full of days, and had made Solomon his son king over Israel in his stead, ² then he assembled all the chiefs of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, ³ and the Levites were numbered, from thirty years old and upwards; and the number of them by their poll, amounted to thirty eight thousand men. ⁴ Of these, twenty four thousand were for the works for the house of the Lord; and six thousand were scribes and judges; ⁵ and four thousand were guards of the gates, and four thousand were to praise the Lord with musical instruments, which he had made for praising the Lord. ⁶ And David distributed them into daily classes, under the heads of Gerson, Kaath and Merari, the sons of Levi. ⁷ Now to Gerson belonged Edan and Semei; ⁸ the sons of Edan, were chief Jeiel, and Zethan and Joel, three: ⁹ the sons of Semei, were Salomith, Jeiel and Dan, three. Those were the chiefs of the families of the Edantes; ¹⁰ but the Semeites, had also Jeth and Ziza, and Joas and Beria; these four were sons of Semei, ¹¹ and Jeth was the chief and Ziza the second, and Joas and Beria not having many children were comprehended in one muster, for a house of a family. ¹² And the sons of Kaath were Ambram, Issaar, Chebron, Oziel; four. ¹³ The sons of Ambram were Aaron and Moses. Now Aaron was set apart for the sanctification of the most holy things, he and his sons, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister in the priest's office, and to bless in his name forever ¹⁴ But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were classed in the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses, were Gersam and Eliezer. ¹⁶ Of the Gersamites, Subael was chief, ¹⁷ and of the Eliezerites, Rabia was chief. Now Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rabia were increased to a multitude. ¹⁸ The sons of Issaar, were Salomith the chief. ¹⁹ The sons of Chebron, were Jeria the chief, Amaria the second, Jeziel the third, Jekemias the fourth ²⁰ The sons of Oziel, were Micha the chief and Isia the second. ²¹ The sons of Merari were Mooli and Mousi. The sons of Mooli were Eleazar and Kis. ²² Now Eleazar died, and left no sons, but only daughters. So the sons of Kis, their brethren, took them. ²³ The sons of Mousi were Mouli and Eder and Jerimoth, three. ²⁴ These are the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their patriarchal families. The chiefs of these families, according to the review of them, according to the number of their names was polled to perform the works of the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upwards. ²⁵ For David said, The Lord Cod of Israel hath given his people rest and fixed his abode in Jerusalem forever. ²⁶ So the Levites not having to carry the tabernacle and all the utensils thereof for its service; ²⁷ for this cause by these last orders of David, the Levites are numbered from twenty years old and upwards, ²⁸ for he set them under the superintendance of Aaron to serve in the house of the Lord, over the courts and over the store houses and over the purification of all the holy things, and over the work of the service of the house of God, ²⁹ and for the shew bread, and for the fine flour of the sacrifice and for the unleavened cakes, and for the frying pan, and the mixed sacrifice, and for all kinds of measuring, ³⁰ and to stand every morning to sing praises, and give thanks to the Lord, and the same every evening: ³¹ and to have charge of all the offerings of homage made to the Lord, on the sabbaths and at the new moons, and at the festivals according to the number, and according to the rule prescribed for them, continually for the Lord. ³² And they are to keep the watch of the tabernacle of the testimony, and to guard the sanctuary, and to guard the sons of Aaron, their brethren, that they may minister as priests, in the house of the Lord.