◄ 2 Chronicles 35:5 ►
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Good News Translation
and arrange yourselves so that some of you will be available to help each family of the people of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Take position in the holy place according to the groupings of the ancestral houses of your kindred the people, and let there be Levites for each division of an ancestral house.

Contemporary English Version
Divide yourselves into groups, then arrange yourselves throughout the temple so that each family of worshipers will be able to get help from one of you.

New American Bible
Stand in the sanctuary according to the branches of the ancestral houses of your kin, the common people, so that the distribution of the Levites and the families may be the same.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.

And stand

Psalm 134:1 A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Psalm 135:2 You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Context
Josiah Restores the Passover
…4And prepare yourselves by your houses, and families according to your courses, as David king of Israel commanded, and Solomon his son hath written. 5And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.6And being sanctified kill the phase, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:10
And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment.

Ezra 6:18
And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses over the works of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

2 Chronicles 35:4
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