²⁴These were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the families,^c according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, who were to do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old^d and above. ²⁵For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. ²⁶And also, the Levites do not need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.” ²⁷For by the last words of David, they are the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old^e and above. ²⁸For their station was to assist^f the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, over the courtyards, over the chambers, and over the cleansing of all the sanctified objects, and with the work of the service of the house of God, ²⁹and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements. ³⁰And they were to stand every morning,^g thanking and praising Yahweh, and likewise in the evening, ³¹and for every burnt offering offered to Yahweh, on Sabbaths, on new moon festivals, and at the appointed feasts, according to the customary number required of them,^h regularly before Yahweh. ³²And they shall keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly,ⁱ the responsibility of the sanctified objects, and the responsibility of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to serve the house of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

cLiterally “fathers”
dLiterally “a son of twenty years”
eLiterally “a son of twenty years”
fLiterally “for the hand of”
gLiterally “in the morning, in the morning”
hLiterally “over them”
iOr “meeting”