26. To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.
27. And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.
28. And some of their stock had the charge of the vessels for the ministry: for the vessels were both brought in and carried out by number.
29. Some of them also had the instruments of the sanctuary committed unto them, and the charge of the fine flour, and wine, and oil, and frankincense, and spices.
30. And the sons of the priests made the ointments of the spices.
31. And Mathathias a Levite, the firstborn of Sellum the Corite, was overseer of such things as were fried in the fryingpan.
32. And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the leaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.
33. These are the chief of the singing men of the families of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers, by the temple, that they might serve continually day and night in their ministry.