1. So when David was old and full of days, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
2. And he gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
3. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of these, twenty-four thousand were to look after the work of the house of the Lord, six thousand were officers and judges,
5. four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with musical instruments, “which I made,” said David, “for giving praise.”
6. Also David separated them into divisions among the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Laadan: the first Jehiel, then Zetham and Joel—three in all.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran—three in all. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Laadan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These were the four sons of Shimei.
11. Jahath was the first and Zizah the second. But Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; therefore they were assigned as one father’s house.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.
13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was set apart, he and his sons forever, that he should sanctify the most holy things, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister to Him, and to give the blessing in His name forever.
14. Now the sons of Moses the man of God were reckoned to the tribe of Levi.
15. The sons of Moses were Gershon and Eliezer.
16. Of the sons of Gershon, Shebuel was the first.