1So when Dauid was old and full of dayes, he made Solomon his sonne king ouer Israel.
2And he gathered together all the Princes of Israel, with the Priests and the Leuites.
3Now the Leuites were numbred from the age of thirtie yeeres and vpward: and their number, by their polles, man by man, was thirtie and eight thousand.
4Of which, twentie and foure thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord: and sixe thousand were Officers and Iudges.
5Moreouer, foure thousand were porters, and foure thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made (said Dauid) to praise therewith.
6And Dauid diuided them into courses among the sonnes of Leui, namely Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
8The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham, and Ioel, three.
9The sonnes of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chiefe of the fathers of Laadan.
10And the sonnes of Shimei were: Iahath, Zina, and Ieush, and Beriah. These foure were the sonnes of Shimei.
11And Iahath was the chiefe, and Ziza the second: but Ieush and Beriah had not many sonnes: therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their fathers house.
12The sonnes of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, foure.
13The sonnes of Amram: Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctifie the most holy things, he and his sonnes for euer, to burne incense before the Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name for euer.
14Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sonnes were named of the tribe of Leui.
19Of the sonnes of Hebron, Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the third, and Iekamiam the fourth.
20Of the sonnes of Uzziel: Michah the first, and Iesiah the second.
21The sonnes of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sonnes of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
22And Eleazar died, and had no sonnes but daughters: and their brethren the sonnes of Kish tooke them.
23The sonnes of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth, three.
24These were the sonnes of Leui after the house of their fathers, euen the chiefe of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polles, that did the worke for the seruice of the house of the Lord, from the age of twentie yeeres and vpward.
25For Dauid sayd, The Lord God of Israel hath giuen rest vnto his people, that they may dwell in Ierusalem for euer.
26And also vnto the Leuites: they shall no more cary the Tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the seruice thereof.
27For by the last words of Dauid, the Leuites were numbred from twentie yeeres olde, and aboue:
28Because their office was to wait on the sonnes of Aaron, for the seruice of the house of the Lord, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the worke of the seruice of the house of God:
29Both for the shew-bread, and for the fine floure for meat offering, and for the vnleauened cakes, and for that which is baked in the panne, and for that which is fried, and for all maner of measures and size:
30And to stand euery morning to thanke and praise the Lord, and likewise at Euen:
31And to offer all burnt sacrifices vnto the Lord in the Sabbaths, in the new moones, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded vnto them continually before the Lord:
32And that they should keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sonnes of Aaron their brethren, in the seruice of the house of the Lord.
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