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1 Chronicles 23:4
“David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;”
Verse in context — 1 Chronicles 23
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He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
3
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
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David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;
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four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.
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David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Genealogies and David’s reign, emphasizing temple worship.
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