23. So they and their sons were over the gates of the House of יהוה, the House of the Tent, by watches.
24. The gatekeepers were on the four sides: the east, west, north, and south.
25. And their brothers in their villages had to come with them from time to time for seven days.
26. For the four chief gatekeepers were in an office of trust. They were Lĕwites, and they were over the rooms and treasuries of the House of Elohim.
27. And they spent the night all around the House of Elohim because they had the duty, and they were to open it morning by morning.
28. And some of them were over the vessels of service, for they brought them in and took them out by count.
29. And some of them were appointed over the vessels, even over all the vessels of the set-apart place, and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the incense and the spices.
30. And some of the sons of the priests blended the compound of spices.
31. And Mattithyah of the Lĕwites, the first-born of Shallum the Qorḥite, was entrusted with the making of the flat cakes.
32. And some of their brothers of the sons of the Qehathites were over the showbread, to prepare every Sabbath.
33. And these were the singers, heads of the fathers’ houses of the Lĕwites, in the rooms, and were exempted from other duties, for they were employed in that work day and night.
34. These heads of the fathers’ houses of the Lĕwites were heads throughout their generations. They dwelt at Yerushalayim.