1 Chronicles 23

And David was old and full of days, and he made Solomon his son king in his place over Israel.

And he gathered together all the rulers of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by their head count came to thirty-eight thousand men.

Of these, twenty-four thousand were taskmasters over the works of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were scribes and judges,

and four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which he made for praising the Lord.

And David divided them into divisions for the sons of Levi: for Gedson, Kaath, Merari.

And for Parosom: for Edan and for Semei.

The sons of Edan: the chief Iiel, and Zethom and Joel—three.

The sons of Semei: Salomith and Iiel and Aidan—three. These were the heads of the ancestral houses belonging to Edan.

And to the sons of Semei: Ieth and Ziza and Joas and Beria; these were the sons of Semei—four.

And Ieth was the chief and Ziza the second; but Joas and Beria did not multiply sons, and they became one ancestral house for one registration.

The sons of Kaath: Ambram, Issaar, Chebron, Oziel—four.

The sons of Ambram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to be sanctified as most holy, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and to pray in his name forever.

And as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named to the tribe of Levi.

The sons of Moses: Gersam and Eliezer.

The sons of Gersam: Soubael the chief.

And the sons belonging to Eliezer: Raabia the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Raabia increased to a great height.

The sons of Issaar: Salomoth the chief.

The sons of Chebron: Idoud the chief, Amadia the second, Oziel the third, Ikemias the fourth.

The sons of Oziel: Michas the chief, and Isia the second.

The sons of Merari: Mooli and Mousi. The sons of Mooli: Eleazar and Kis.

And Eleazar died, and he had no sons but only daughters; and the sons of Kis, their brothers, took them.

The sons of Mousi: Mooli and Eder and Iarimoth—three.

These are the sons of Levi according to their ancestral houses, heads of their ancestral houses, according to their registration, according to the number of their names, according to their head count, doing the works of the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.

For David said, "The Lord God of Israel has given rest to his people, and he has taken up his dwelling in Jerusalem forever.

And the Levites were no longer carrying the tent and all its vessels for its service.

For by the last words of David is the number of the sons of Levi from twenty years old and upward.

For he stationed them at the hand of Aaron, to minister in the house of the Lord, over the courts and over the chambers and over the purification of all the holy things and over the works of the service of the house of God,

for the bread of the presentation, for the fine flour of the sacrifice, and for the unleavened wafers, and for what is on the pan, and for what is kneaded, and for every measure;

and to stand in the morning to praise and give thanks to the Lord, and likewise in the evening;

and over all the whole burnt offerings that are offered up to the Lord on the sabbaths and at the new moons and at the feasts, by number, according to the ordinance upon them, continually before the Lord.

And they shall keep the charges of the tent of witness and the charges of the sons of Aaron their brothers, to minister in the house of the Lord.