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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were as follows: Aaron's sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Together with Zadok from the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech from the sons of Ithamar, David divided them according to the assigned duties of their service. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Since more leaders were found among Eleazar's descendants than Ithamar's, they were divided accordingly: 16 heads of ancestral houses were from Eleazar's descendants, and eight heads of ancestral houses were from Ithamar's. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5They were assigned by lot, for there were officers of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar's and Ithamar's descendants. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The secretary, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the officers, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites. One ancestral house was taken for Eleazar, and then one for Ithamar. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19These had their assigned duties for service when they entered the LORD's temple, according to their regulations, which they received from their ancestor Aaron, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As for the rest of Levi's sons: from Amram's sons: Shubael; from Shubael's sons: Jehdeiah. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21From Rehabiah: from Rehabiah's sons: Isshiah was the first. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22From the Izharites: Shelomoth; from Shelomoth's sons: Jahath. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Hebron's sons: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24From Uzziel's sons: Micah; from Micah's sons: Shamir. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Micah's brother: Isshiah; from Isshiah's sons: Zechariah. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Merari's sons: Mahli and Mushi, and from his sons, Jaaziah his son. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Merari's sons, by his son Jaaziah: Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29From Kish, from Kish's sons: Jerahmeel. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Mushi's sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. Those were the sons of the Levites according to their ancestral houses. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the sons of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites--the family heads and their younger brothers alike. |
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