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1 Chronicles 23:2-14 World English Bible (WEB)

2. He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

3. The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

4. David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

5. four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”

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

7. Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

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

9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.

10. The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

11. Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.

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

13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

14. But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.