^{1 Ref} Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

^{2 Ref} He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

^{3 Ref} The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

^{4 Ref} Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;

^{5 Ref} and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, [said David], for giving praise.

^{6 Ref} David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

^{7 Ref} Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

^{8 Ref} The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

⁹ The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers' [houses] of Ladan.

¹⁰ The sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

¹¹ Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.

^{12 Ref} The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

^{13 Ref} The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, forever, to burn incense before Yahweh, to minister to him, and to bless in his name, forever.

^{14 Ref} But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

^{15 Ref} The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

^{16 Ref} The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.

^{17 Ref} The sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

^{18 Ref} The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

^{19 Ref} The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

²⁰ The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

^{21 Ref} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

^{22 Ref} Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brothers the sons of Kish took them [to wife].

^{23 Ref} The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

^{24 Ref} These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' [houses] of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward.

^{25 Ref} For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:

^{26 Ref} and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it.