OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 23:6

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David divided them into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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Verse 6. Into 24 courses, like the priests, that each class might serve twice a year for a whole week. Calmet. 24:31. Tirinus.—God had already made choice of the posterity of Levi; and David, with the princes, Sadoc, and so forth disposed of them by lots, (Calmet. 24:6) to serve in the tabernacle, and in the future temple. Worthington.

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