25
From time to time their kinsmen had to come in from their towns to help them for seven days.
26
For the four chief gatekeepers were on permanent duty; they were the L'vi'im in charge of accommodations and supplies in the house of God.
27
They spent their nights in the vicinity of the house of God, because they were in charge of it; they were responsible for opening it up each morning.
28
Some of [the L'vi'im] were in charge of the articles used for the service; they had to keep records of them when bringing them in and out.
29
Others were in charge of the equipment, the holy utensils, the fine flour, the wine, the olive oil, the frankincense and the spices.
30
Some of the sons of the cohanim mixed together the ingredients for the perfumes.
31
Mattityah, one of the L'vi'im, who was the firstborn of Shalum the Korchi, was permanently in charge of baking operations.
32
Some of their kinsmen, from the descendants of the K'hati, were in charge of preparing the showbread every Shabbat.
33
Also there were the singers, heads of fathers' clans among the L'vi'im. They lived in the accommodations and were free from other kinds of service, for they were employed in their own work day and night.
34
These were heads of fathers' clans among the L'vi'im, according to their generations, and they were leaders; they lived in Yerushalayim.
35
In Giv'on lived the father of Giv'on, Ye'i'el, whose his wife's name was Ma'akhah;