1Forsooth to the sons of Aaron these portions shall be; the sons of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;

2but Nadab and Abihu were dead without free children before their father, and Eleazar and Ithamar were set in priesthood.

3And David parted or separated them, that is, with the help of Zadok, of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech, of the sons of Ithamar, by their whiles, and their service;

4and the sons of Eleazar were found many more in the men as princes, than the sons of Ithamar. And David parted or separated to them, that is, to the sons of Eleazar, sixteen princes by their meines and houses; and to the sons of Ithamar eight princes by their meines and houses.

5And he parted or separated ever either meines among themselves by lots; for there were princes of the saintuary, and princes of the house of God, as well of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

6And Shemaiah, the son of Nethane-el, a scribe of the lineage of Levi, described them before the king and [the] princes, and before Zadok, the priest, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, and to the princes of meines of the priests and of the deacons [or Levites]; he described one house of Eleazar, that was sovereign to [the] others, and the tother house of Ithamar, that had [the] other priests and deacons or Levites under him.

7Forsooth the first lot went out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

8the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

9the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,

10the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abiah,

11the ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah,

12the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

13the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

14the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

15the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,

17the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

18the three and twentieth to Delaiah, and the four and twentieth to Maaziah.

19These were the whiles, or times, of them by their services, that they enter into the house of God, and by their custom under the hand of Aaron, their father, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

20Forsooth Shubael was prince of the sons of Levi that were residue or were left, of the sons of Amram; and the son of Shubael was Jehdeiah;

21also Isshiah was prince of the sons of Rehabiah.

22And Shelomoth was prince of Izharites; and the son of Shelomoth was Jahath;

23and the sons of Hebron; his first son was Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

24The son of Uzziel was Michah; the son of Michah was Shamir;

25the brother of Michah was Isshiah; and the son of Isshiah was Zechariah.

26The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi; the son of Jaaziah was Beno;

27and the son of Merari was Jaaziah, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

28And the son of Mahli was Eleazar, which had not free sons;

29and the son of Kish was Jerahmeel;

30the sons of Mushi were Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of Levi, by the houses of their meines.

31Also and they sent lots against their brethren, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and before Zadok, and Ahimelech, and before the princes of meines of [the] priests, and of deacons [or Levites]; [the] lot parted evenly all things, both the greater and the less.