^{3 Ref} And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

^{4 Ref} Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;

^{5 Ref} Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

^{6 Ref} And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.