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The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
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Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges
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and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise therewith.
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David divided them into courses 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, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.
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The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
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Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
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The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
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The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.