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All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust.
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And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
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At the four quarters were the doorkeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
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And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after [every] seven days from time to time with them.
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For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God;
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for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning [pertained] to them.
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And [part] of them had the charge of the instruments of service, for by number they brought them in and by number they brought them out.
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[Part] of them also were appointed over the vessels, and over all the holy instruments, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
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And it was [some one] of the sons of the priests who compounded the ointment of the spices.
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And Mattithiah of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was in trust over the things that were made in the pans.
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And [some] of the sons of the Kohathites, their brethren, were over the loaves to be set in rows, to prepare them every sabbath.