1 Chronicles 23

¹So when Dauid was olde and full of dayes, he made Salomon his sonne King ouer Israel.

²And hee gathered together all the princes of Israel with the Priestes and the Leuites.

³And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their nomber according to their summe was eight and thirtie thousand men.

⁴Of these foure and twentie thousande were set to aduance the worke of the house of the Lord, and sixe thousand were ouerseers and iudges.

⁵And foure thousand were porters, and foure thousande praised the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

⁶So Dauid deuided offices vnto them, to wit, to the sonnes of Leui, to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

⁷Of the Gershonites were Laadan and Shimei.

⁸The sonnes of Laadan, the chiefe was Iehiel, and Zetham and Ioel, three.

⁹The Sonnes of Shimei, Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haram, three: these were the chiefe fathers of Laadan.

¹⁰Also the sonnes of Shimei were Iahath, Zina, Ieush, and Beriah: these foure were ye sonnes of Shimei.

¹¹And Iahath was the chiefe, and Zizah the seconde, but Ieush and Beriah had not many sonnes: therfore they were in the families of their father, counted but as one.

¹²The sonnes of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron aud Vzziel, foure.

¹³The sonnes of Amram, Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated to sanctifie the most holy place, hee and his sonnes for euer to burne incense before the Lord, to minister to him, and to blesse in his Name for euer.