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and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aharon their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.

Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of El`azar, and of the sons of Itamar.

Shemayah the son of Netan'el the Sofer, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Tzadok the Kohen, and Achimelekh the son of Avyatar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Kohanim and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for El`azar, and one taken for Itamar.

Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaf, and of Heman, and of Yedutun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of those who did the work according to their service was:

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaf, Yedutun, and Heman being under the order of the king.

They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

Now the first lot came forth for Asaf to Yosef: the second to Gedalyahu; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:

for the thirteenth, Shuva'el, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the fourteenth, Mattityah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the fifteenth to Yeremot, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the sixteenth to Hananyah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the seventeenth to Yoshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the three and twentieth to Machzi'ot, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.

For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korchi, Meshelemyah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaf.