1 Chronicles 23:1-6
The Divisions of the Levites

1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

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3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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4 Of which, twenty and four thousand [were] to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand [were] officers and judges:

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5 Moreover four thousand [were] porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, [said David], to praise [therewith].

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6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, [namely], Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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