employment that, in gratitude to God and his mercy, they must have dedicated themselves to producing and performing the music used to praise God at the wilderness tabernacle and later in the temple in Jerusalem (cf. Num. 26:11). This interesting fact is a reminder that there can be devout children of reprobate fathers as well as devout fathers with reprobate children, and that no child needs to be kept from serving God because of his or her parents’ sins. Another interesting change as we pass from