21. Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was doorkeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
22. All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust.
23. And they and their sons were at the gates of the house of Jehovah, the house of the tent, to keep watch there.
24. At the four quarters were the doorkeepers, toward the east, west, north, and south.
25. And their brethren, in their villages, were to come after every seven days from time to time with them.
26. For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house of God
27. for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
28. And part of them had the charge of the instruments of service, for by number they brought them in and by number they brought them out.