1 Chronicles 23:3-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 The Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their total number was found to be thirty-eight thousand.(A) 4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to direct the service of the house of the Lord, six thousand were to be officials and judges, 5 four thousand were to be gatekeepers,(B) and four thousand were to praise the Lord with the instruments which [David] had devised for praise. 6 David apportioned them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.(C)
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