⁴ And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.

¹¹ Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

¹² So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:

¹³ And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

⁶ Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;

⁷ Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty;

⁸ Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred;

⁹ Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;

¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.

¹¹ And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab,

¹² And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord.