¹³and their kinsmen, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred and sixty mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.

¹⁴And from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari; ¹⁵Bakbakkar; Heresh; Galal; Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zicri, son of Asaph; ¹⁶Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite.

¹⁷And the gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief); ¹⁸until then they were gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east side toward the camps of the Levites. ¹⁹And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers were over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance. ²⁰And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them in time past;^d Yahweh was with him. ²¹Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the doorway to the tent of assembly.^e ²²All of them were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances, two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. They were established by David and Samuel the seer on account of their faithfulness. ²³So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards. ²⁴The gatekeepers were on four sides: east, west, north, and south. ²⁵And their brethren in their villages were to come every seven days by turn^f to be with these. ²⁶For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who were Levites, were entrusted^g and were over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God. ²⁷And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them was a responsibility. And they had charge of opening the house of God every morning.^h

²⁸And some of them were over the utensils of the service, for they count themⁱ when they are brought in and they count them^j when they are brought out.

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Footnotes

dOr “before”
eOr “meeting”
fLiterally “from time to time”
gLiterally “they in their faithfulness”
hLiterally “they were over the key and to morning to morning”
iLiterally “in number”
jLiterally “in number”