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1 Chronicles 23 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 - Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:2 - And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

Offices of the Levites

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:5 - Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:6 - And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Gershonites

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:7 - Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:8 - The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:9 - The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:10 - And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:11 - Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.

Kohathites

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:12 - The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:13 - The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was made separate and holy, he and his sons for ever, for the care of the most holy things and the burning of offerings before the Lord, to do his work and give blessings in his name for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:14 - And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:15 - The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:16 - The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:17 - And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:18 - The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the first.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:19 - The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:20 - The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.

Merarites

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:21 - The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:22 - And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:23 - The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:26 - And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27 - So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - Their place was by the side of the sons of Aaron in all the work of the house of the Lord, in the open spaces and in the rooms, in the making clean of all the holy things, in doing all the work of the house of the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:29 - The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:30 - They had to take their places every morning to give praise and make melody to the Lord, and in the same way at evening;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31 - At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:32 - And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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