A moment in scripture
1 Chronicles 23:4
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Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges:
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Chronicles 23:2
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
- 1 Chronicles 23:3
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
- 1 Chronicles 23:6
And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.