⁴ Of these, 24,000 were ^(A)to direct the work of the house of Yahweh; and 6,000 were ^(B)officers and judges,

The Service of the Levites

^24 (A)These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were ^[a]counted, in the number of names by their ^[b]census, doing the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, ^(B)from twenty years old and upward.