1The sons of Levi:
16The sons of Levi:
31These are the men David put in charge of the music in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.
32They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.
33These are the men who served, together with their sons.
48Their fellow Levites were assigned to every kind of service of the tabernacle, the house of God.
49But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the Most Holy Place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
54Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
62The Gershomites, according to their clans, were allotted thirteen cities from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan.
63The Merarites, according to their clans, were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
64So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.
65They assigned by lot the cities named above from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
66And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
71The Gershomites received the following:
77The Merarites (the rest of the Levites) received the following: