1 Chronicles 23

¹And David was old and full of days, and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

²And he gathered all the princes of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

³And the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number by heads, counting men, was thirty-eight thousand.

⁴Of these, twenty-four thousand to oversee the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand officers and judges.

⁵And four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand were praising the LORD with instruments that I made for praise.

⁶And David divided them into divisions, according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

⁷Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

⁸The sons of Ladan the chief: Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel — three.

⁹The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Shelomith, and Haziel and Haran -- three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan.

¹⁰And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; these were the sons of Shimei, four.

¹¹And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not multiply sons, and they became one household for enrollment.

¹²The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

¹³The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn offerings before the LORD, to serve him, and to bless in his name forever.

¹⁴And Moses the man of God — his sons were enrolled under the tribe of Levi.

¹⁵The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

¹⁶The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

¹⁷And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah multiplied exceedingly.

¹⁸The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

¹⁹The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁰The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

²¹The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

²²And Eleazar died and he had no sons, but only daughters; and the sons of Kish, their kinsmen, married them.

²³The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth — three.

²⁴These are the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses: the heads of the fathers' houses, according to their enrollment by the count of names, head by head, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

²⁵For David said: The Lord, God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he will dwell in Jerusalem forever.

²⁶And also, the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its articles for its service.

²⁷For by the last commands of David, these are the numbers of the sons of Levi from twenty years old and upward.

²⁸For their assignment was at the side of the sons of Aaron, for the service of the house of the LORD, over the courts and the chambers and the purification of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God.

²⁹and for the showbread and for the fine flour for the grain offering, and for the wafers of unleavened bread, and for the griddle and for the deep pan, and for all measures and capacities.

³⁰and to stand every morning to give thanks and to praise the Lord, and likewise in the evening.

³¹and for all the offering of burnt offerings to the LORD on the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the appointed feasts, according to the number prescribed by the ordinance continually before the LORD.

³²And they shall keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.