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1 Chronicles 9:12-25 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

12. and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

13. and their brethren, heads of their fathers' houses, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

14. And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

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

16. and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

17. And the porters; Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

18. who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

19. And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers had been over the camp of the Lord, keepers of the entry;

20. And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and the Lord was with him.

21. Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.

22. All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

23. So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, even the house of the tabernacle, by wards.

24. On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

25. And their brethren, and their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

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