OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

1 Chronicles 23:6

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David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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1 Chronicles 23:3–9

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The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

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David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

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four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”

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David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

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The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, Zetham, and Joel, three.

9

The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ households of Ladan.

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