1 Chronicles 23

Now Dawud was old and full of days; and he made Sulayman his son king over Israel. ²He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. ³The 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 oversee the work of the house of Allah; and six thousand were officers and judges; ⁵and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Allah with the instruments which I made, said Dawud, for giving praise. ⁶Dawud divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ⁷Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. ⁸The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three. ⁹The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan. ¹⁰The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei. ¹¹Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning. ¹²The sons of Kohath: Imran, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. ¹³The sons of Imran: Harun and Musa; and Harun was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Allah, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever. ¹⁴But as for Musa the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵The sons of Musa: Gershom and Eliezer. ¹⁶The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. ¹⁷The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. ¹⁸The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. ¹⁹The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. ²⁰The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second. ²¹The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. ²²Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them to wife. ²³The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. ²⁴These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' houses of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Allah, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁵For Dawud said, Allah, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever: ²⁶and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all its vessels for its service. ²⁷For by the last words of Dawud the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward. ²⁸For their office was to wait on the sons of Harun for the service of the house of Allah, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God; ²⁹for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; ³⁰and to stand every morning to thank and praise Allah, and likewise at even; ³¹and to offer all burnt offerings to Allah, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Allah; ³²and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Harun their brothers, for the service of the house of Allah.