³And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴Of these, twenty-four thousand were to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges; ⁵and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith. ⁶And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei. ⁸The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. ⁹The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief fathers of Laadan. ¹⁰And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Ziza, and Jeush, and Beriah. These were the four sons of Shimei. ¹¹And Jahath was the head, and Ziza the second; and Jeush and Beriah had not many sons: as father’s house, therefore, they were reckoned as one. ¹²The sons of Kohath: Amram, Jizhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated, that he should be hallowed as most holy, he and his sons for ever, to offer before Jehovah, to do service to him, and to bless in his name for ever. ¹⁴—And as to Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. ¹⁶The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the head. ¹⁷And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the head; and Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. ¹⁸—The sons of Jizhar: Shelomith the head. ¹⁹The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the head, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰The sons of Uzziel: Micah the head, and Jishijah the second. ²¹The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. ²²And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters; and their brethren the sons of Kish took them. ²³The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

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