OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 25:8

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They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.

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Verse 8. Unlearned. Hebrew and Septuagint “the scholars.” Bible.—After the singers had been distributed into twenty-four classes, pretty equal in number, lots decided which of then should serve first, ( Menochius.) as had been done with the priests. Calmet. 24:31. See Calmet. 26:13.

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