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³ Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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⁵ Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

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⁶ And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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⁸ And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

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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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³¹ And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.

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³² And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

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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 Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

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²⁷ And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

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²⁷ For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

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³⁰ And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;

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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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⁶ And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

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² And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

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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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¹³ It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

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¹⁹ And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

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¹⁸ Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

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²⁵ And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

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²⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

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²¹ And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

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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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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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¹⁰ And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

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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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²⁷ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

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²⁸ And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;

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²⁹ Also from the house of Gilgal, Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

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³⁰ And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

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³¹ Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

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³² And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

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³³ And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

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³⁴ Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

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³⁵ And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:

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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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³⁷ And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

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³⁸ And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;

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³⁹ And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

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⁴⁰ So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:

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⁴¹ And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

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⁴² And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

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⁴³ Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

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⁴⁴ And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

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⁴⁷ And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.