1 Chronicles 23:2-6 ▼

2 David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.

3 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

4 “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,

5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

6 And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.