6. From the sons of Merari: Asaiah was the leader, and his brothers were two hundred twenty.
7. From the sons of Gershom: Joel was the leader, and his brothers were one hundred thirty.
8. From the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah was the leader, and his brothers were two hundred.
9. From the sons of Hebron: Eliel was the leader, and his brothers were eighty.
10. From the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab was the leader, and his brothers were one hundred twelve.
11. And David summoned the priests, Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites: Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.
12. And he said to them: "You who are the leaders of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brothers, and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that has been prepared for it.
13. Otherwise, as it was before, when the Lord struck us because you were not present, so also it might be now, if we do what is illicit."
14. Therefore, the priests and the Levites were sanctified, so that they might carry the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
15. And the sons of Levi took the ark of God, just as Moses had instructed, in accord with the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders by the bars.
16. And David spoke to the leaders of the Levites, so that they might appoint, from their brothers, singers with musical instruments, specifically, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, so that a joyful noise might resound on high.
17. And they appointed from the Levites: Heman, the son of Joel; and from his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and truly, from their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kushaiah.
18. And with them were their brothers in the second rank: Zechariah, and Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jahiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, who were gatekeepers.
19. Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were sounding out with cymbals of brass.
20. And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah were singing mysteries with the psalteries.
21. Then Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah and Obededom, and Jeiel and Azaziah were singing a song of victory with the harps, for the octave.