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Read Full Chapter (1 Chronicles 23) 1 Chronicles 23:6 KJV
"And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari."
1 Chronicles 23:6 in Context (Verses 3–9 KJV)
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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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Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:*
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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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And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.*
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¶ Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.*
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The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
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The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.