◄ 1 Chronicles 26:13 ►
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Good News Translation
Each family, regardless of size, drew lots to see which gate it would be responsible for.

New Revised Standard Version
and they cast lots by ancestral houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

Contemporary English Version
Each group, no matter how large or small, was assigned a gate to guard, and they let the LORD show them what he wanted done.

New American Bible
They cast lots for each gate, small and large families alike.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.

1 Chronicles 24:31 And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

Context
The Divisions of the Gatekeepers
…12Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the chiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in the house of the Lord. 13And they cast lots equally, both little and great, by their families for every one of the gates.14And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son Zacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 24:5
And he divided both the families one with the other by lot: for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

1 Chronicles 24:31
And they also cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

1 Chronicles 25:8
And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together.

1 Chronicles 26:12
Among these were the divisions of the porters, so that the chiefs of the wards, as well as their brethren, always ministered in the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 26:14
And the lot of the east fell to Selemias. But to his son Zacharias, a very wise and learned man, the north gate fell by lot.

1 Chronicles 26:12
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