The Duties of the Gatekeepers

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The porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brothers (Shallum was the chief),

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who previously served in the king’s gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

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Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entry.

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Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.

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Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the Tent of Meeting.

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All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer ordained in their office of trust.

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So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the LORD’s house, even the house of the tent, by wards.

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On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

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Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

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for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the rooms and over the treasuries in God’s house.

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They lodged around God’s house, because that duty was on them; and to them pertained its opening morning by morning.

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Certain of them were in charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out.

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Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

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Some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

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Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.

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Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.

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