Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuary and the rulers of the house of God were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the Scribe of the Levites, wrote them before the king and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief fathers of the Priests and of the Levites, one family being reserved for Eleazar, and another reserved for Ithamar.

And the first [a]lot fell to Jehoiarib, and the second to Jedaiah,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 24:7 This lot was ordained to take away all occasion of envy or grudging of one against another.

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