1 Chronicles 23
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1 Chronicles 23:20-29

20Of the sons of Uzziel, Michah was the first and Jesshiah the second.

21The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli were Eleazar and Kish.

22And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but only daughters; and their brethren, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.

23The sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth—three in all.

24These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses—the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted individually by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and above.

25For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever”;

26and also to the Levites, “They shall no longer carry the tabernacle, or any of the articles for its service.”

27For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above;

28because their duty was to help the sons of Aaron in the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers, in the purifying of all holy things and the work of the service of the house of God,

29both with the showbread and the fine flour for the grain offering, with the unleavened cakes and what is baked in the pan, with what is mixed and with all kinds of measures and sizes;

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