1And for the sons of Aaron, their divisions. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
3And David divided them — and Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar — according to their reckoning in their service (avodah).
4And the sons of Eleazar were found more, for the heads of the men, than the sons of Ithamar; and they divided them: for the sons of Eleazar, heads for the house of fathers, sixteen; and for the sons of Ithamar, by the house of their fathers, eight.
5And they divided them by lots, these with these; for there were princes of the sanctuary and princes of God from the sons of Eleazar and from the sons of Ithamar.
6And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers for the priests and for the Levites — one father's house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken, taken for Ithamar.
7And the first lot came out for Jehoiarib, for Jedaiah the second;
8for Harim the third, for Seorim the fourth;
9for Malchijah the fifth, for Mijamin the sixth;
10for Hakkoz the seventh, for Abijah the eighth;
11for Yeshua the ninth, for Shecaniah the tenth;
12for Eliashib the eleventh, for Jakim the twelfth;
13for Huppah the thirteenth, for Jeshebeab the fourteenth;
14for Bilgah the fifteenth, for Immer the sixteenth;
15for Hezir the seventeenth, for Happizzez the eighteenth;
16for Pethahiah the nineteenth, for Jehezkel the twentieth;
17for Jachin the one and twentieth, for Gamul the two and twentieth;
18for Delaiah the three and twentieth, for Maaziah the four and twentieth.
19These were their reckonings for their service (avodah), to come into the house of YHWH according to their judgment (mishpat), by the hand of Aaron their father, as YHWH the God of Israel commanded (tzivvah) him.
20And for the rest of the sons of Levi: for the sons of Amram, Shubael; for the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.
21For Rehabiah: for the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the head.
22For the Izharites, Shelomoth; for the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
23And the sons of Jeriah: Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
24The sons of Uzziel, Micah; for the sons of Micah, Shamir.
25The brother of Micah, Isshiah; for the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
26The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah his son.
27The sons of Merari: by Jaaziah his son — and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
28For Mahli: Eleazar, and he had no sons.
29For Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel.
30And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites by the house of their fathers.
31And they also cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers for the priests and for the Levites — the head father just as his younger brother.