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1 Chronicles 9:15-21 Common English Bible (CEB)

15. Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah son of Mica son of Zichri son of Asaph;

16. Obadiah son of Shemaiah son of Galal son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa son of Elkanah, who lived in the settlements of the Netophathites.

17. The gatekeepers: Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, and Ahiman. Their brother Shallum was the leader,

18. stationed until now in the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers belonging to the Levites’ camp.

19. Shallum, Kore’s son, Ebiasaph’s grandson, and Korah’s great-grandson, and his relatives belonging to his household, the Korahites, served as gatekeepers at the tent’s entrances, as their ancestors had been gatekeepers at the entrance to the Lord’s camp.

20. Phinehas, Eleazar’s son, the Lord be with him, was their leader in former times.

21. Zechariah, Meshelemiah’s son, was gatekeeper at the meeting tent’s entrance.

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