⁴ This is the thing that you shall do: ^(A)of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,

⁸ Now ^(A)while he was serving as priest before God when ^(B)his division was on duty, ⁹ according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot ^(C)to enter ^(D)the temple of the Lord and burn incense.

¹³ And they cast lots by fathers' houses, ^(A)small and great alike, for their gates. ¹⁴ The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north. ¹⁵ Obed-edom's came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted ^(B)the gatehouse. ¹⁶ For Shuppim and ^(C)Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shallecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.

³ With the help of ^(A)Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service. ⁴ Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers' houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar. ⁵ They divided them ^(B)by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. ⁶ And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and ^(C)Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father's house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.

³ The Levites, ^(A)thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and ^(B)the total was ^(C)38,000 men. ⁴ “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said,^{[a] (D)}“shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, 6,000 shall be ^(E)officers and judges, ⁵ 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments ^(F)that I have made for praise.” ^6 (G)And David organized them in divisions ^(H)corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²⁵ And their kinsmen who were ^(A)in their villages were obligated to come ^(B)in every seven days, in turn, to be with these,