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⁶ And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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²⁶ But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

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¹⁰ And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

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⁷ Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.

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⁹ Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

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² And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

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⁵ Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:

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⁶ Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

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⁷ Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

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⁸ Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

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⁹ Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:

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⁹ Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve: twelve:

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³⁹ And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

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⁴⁴ And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

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⁴⁸ Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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¹⁷ And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

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¹⁹ And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.

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²⁵ And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.

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¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve. twelve.

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¹² And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

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¹⁶ And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

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¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

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²² And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

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³² And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.

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³¹ These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

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¹⁰ The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹¹ The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹² The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹³ The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁴ The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁵ The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁶ The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁷ The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁸ The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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¹⁹ The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁰ The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²¹ The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²² The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²³ The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁴ The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁵ The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁶ The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁷ The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁸ The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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²⁹ The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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³⁰ The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve: twelve:

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³¹ The four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve. twelve.

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⁵ And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

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⁹ Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

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¹² Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:

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³⁴ But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

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¹² And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

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¹³ And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

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¹⁵ And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

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¹⁵ And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

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⁸ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

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⁹ Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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²⁰ For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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¹⁷ And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

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¹⁸ And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen; eighteen;

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¹⁹ And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

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⁸ Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

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¹⁰ And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

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²⁴ And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

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³⁶ And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.

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¹³ And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.