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For, said David, Yahweh the God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, - and hath taken up his habitation in Jerusalem, unto times age-abiding;

moreover also, as for the Levites, they have no need to bear the habitation, nor any of its vessels in the laborious work thereof.

For, by the last words of David, the same, were the number of the sons of Levi, - from twenty years old, and upwards.

For, their duty, was - to be in attendance upon the sons of Aaron, in the laborious work of the house of Yahweh, over the courts, and over the chambers, and over the purifying of everything holy, - and doing the laborious work, of the house of God;

and for the bread set in array, and for the fine meal for the meal-offering, and for the unleavened cakes, even for that which is baked in a pan, for the moistened food, - even of every measure, and size;

and for all the offering of ascending-sacrifices unto Yahweh, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, - by number, according to the manner prescribed for them continually, before Yahweh; -

They divided them, therefore, by casting lots, these with those, - for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, from among the sons of Eleazar, and among the sons of Ithamar.

And Shemaiah son of Nethanel the scribe from among the Levites, wrote them down, before the king and the rulers and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the ancestral chiefs, pertaining to the priests and to the Levites, - one ancestral house, was taken for Eleazar, and, was equally taken, for Ithamar.

So then the first lot came forth for Jehoiarib, for Jedaiah, the second;

for Harim, the third, for Seorim, the fourth;

for Malchijah, the fifth, for Mijamin, the sixth;

for Hakkoz, the seventh, for Abijah, the eighth;

for Jeshua, the ninth, for Shecaniah, the tenth;

for Eliashib, the eleventh, for Jakim, the twelfth;

for Huppah, the thirteenth, for Jeshebeab, the fourteenth;

for Bilgah, the fifteenth, for Immer, the sixteenth;

for Hezir, the seventeenth, for Happizzez, the eighteenth;

for Pethahiah, the nineteenth, for Jehezkel, the twentieth;

for Jachin, the twenty-first, for Gamul, the twenty-second;

for Delaiah, the twenty-third, for Maaziah, the twenty-fourth.