1And Dawiḏ was old and satisfied with days, and he made his son Shelomoh to reign over Yisra’ĕl,

2and he gathered all the rulers of Yisra’ĕl, with the priests and the Lĕwites.

3And the Lĕwites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above. And their number, head by head, was thirty-eight thousand males.

4Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the House of יהוה, and six thousand were officers and judges,

5and four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand to give praise to יהוה, “which I made for giving praise.”

6And Dawiḏ divided them into divisions, of the sons of Lĕwi: of Gĕrshon, Qehath, and Merari.

7Of the Gĕrshonites: La‛dan and Shim‛i.

8The sons of La‛dan: Yeḥi’ĕl the head, then Zĕtham and Yo’ĕl, three.

9The sons of Shim‛i: Shelomith, and Ḥazi’ĕl, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of La‛dan.

10And the sons of Shim‛i: Yaḥath, Zina, and Ye‛ush, and Beri‛ah. These were the four sons of Shim‛i.

11And Yaḥath was the head and Zizah the second. But Ye‛ush and Beri‛ah did not have many sons, so they were reckoned as one father’s house.

12The sons of Qehath: Amram, Yitshar, Ḥeḇron, and Uzzi’ĕl, four.

13The sons of Amram: Aharon and Mosheh. And Aharon was set apart, he and his sons forever, that he should set apart the most set-apart, to burn incense before יהוה, to serve Him, and to give the blessing in His Name forever.

14Now Mosheh, the man of Elohim, his sons were named after the tribe of Lĕwi.

15The sons of Mosheh: Gĕreshom and Eli‛ezer.

16The sons of Gĕreshom: Sheḇu’ĕl was the head.

17And the sons of Eli‛ezer: Reḥaḇyah was the head. And Eli‛ezer had no other sons, but the sons of Reḥaḇyah were very many.

18The sons of Yitshar: Shelomith was the head.

19The sons of Ḥeḇron: Yeriyahu was the head, Amaryah the second, Yaḥazi’ĕl the third, and Yeqam‛am the fourth.

20The sons of Uzzi’ĕl: Miḵah was the head and Yishshiyah the second.

21The sons of Merari: Maḥli and Mushi. The sons of Maḥli: El‛azar and Qish.

22And El‛azar died, and had no sons, but only daughters. And their brothers, the sons of Qish, took them.

23The sons of Mushi: Maḥli, Ěḏer, and Yerĕmoth, three.

24These were the sons of Lĕwi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted head by head by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the House of יהוה, from the age of twenty years and above.

25For Dawiḏ said, “יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Yerushalayim forever,”

26and also of the Lĕwites, “They shall no longer bear the Dwelling Place, or any of the vessels for its service.”

27For by the last words of Dawiḏ the Lĕwites were numbered from twenty years old and above,

28because their duty was to help the sons of Aharon in the service of the House of יהוה, in the courtyards and in the rooms, in the cleansing of all that was set-apart, and the work of the service of the House of Elohim,

29both with the showbread and the fine flour for the grain offering, and with the unleavened cakes and what is baked on the griddle, and with what is mixed and with all kinds of measures and sizes;

30and to stand every morning to thank and praise יהוה, and so at evening;

31and for all the burnt offerings to יהוה on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the appointed times, by number according to the right-ruling upon them, continually before יהוה;

32and that they should guard the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the sons of Aharon their brothers in the service of the House of יהוה.