1. So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon, his son, king over Israel.
2. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and the Levites,
3. were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of which, twenty-four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were officers and judges;
5. moreover, four thousand were porters, and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which David had made to praise therewith.
6. And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. The sons of Gershon: Laadan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Laadan: Jehiel, the first, Zetham and Joel, three.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.
11. And Jahath was the first, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not multiply in many sons; therefore, they were in one reckoning, according to their father’s house.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated, that he should be dedicated to the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister unto him and to bless in his name for ever.
14. And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were counted in the tribe of Levi.
15. The sons of Moses were Gershon and Eliezer.
16. Of the sons of Gershon, Shebuel was the chief.
17. And the son of Eliezer was Rehabiah, the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
18. The sons of Izhar: Shelomith, the chief.
19. The sons of Hebron: Jeriah, the first, Amariah, the second, Jahaziel, the third, and Jekameam, the fourth.
20. The sons of Uzziel: Michah, the first, and Jesiah, the second.
21. The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.