1. Now David was old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2. And he assembled all the commanders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
3. And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of these, David said, “Twenty-four thousand are to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials,
5. four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise.”
6. And David organized them in divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. For the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief and Zetham and Joel, three.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the families of Ladan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.
11. And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father.
12. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
13. The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things. He and his sons were to burn offerings forever before Yahweh to serve him and to bless in his name forever.
14. But Moses the man of God and his sons were reckoned among the tribe of Levi.