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17 The gate-keepers, Shallum and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum the head; 18 And hitherto in the king's gate from the sunrising: they keeping the gate for the camps of the sons of Levi. 19 And Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his brethren to the house of his father, the Korahites over the work of the service watching the thresholds to the tent: and their fathers over the camp of Jehovah watching the entrance. 20 And Phinehas son of Eleazar was leader over them to their face; Jehovah with him. 21 Zechariah son of Meshelemiah, the gate of the opening to the tent of appointment. 22 All of them chosen for the gates upon the thresholds, two hundred and twelve. They in their villages being enrolled, David founded them, and Samuel the seeing, in their faithfulness. 23 And they and their sons over the gates to the house of Jehovah to the house of the tent, for the watches. 24 To the four quarters will be the gates, from the sunrising, the sea, the north and the south. 25 And their brethren in their enclosures to come for seven days from time to time with these. 26 For in faithfulness these four strong ones of the gates, these Levites, and they were over the cells and over the treasures of the house of God. 27 And they will lodge round about the house of God, for upon them the watches, and they over its opening, and for morning to morning. 1 Chronicles 9:17-27, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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