This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds.
Parallel translations
- KJV This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
- BSB This is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who come on duty on the Sabbath shall keep watch at the doors,
- ESV This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,
- NKJV This is what you shall do: One-third of you entering on the Sabbath, of the priests and the Levites, shall be keeping watch over the doors;
- NASB This is the thing which you shall do: a third of you, of the priests and Levites who come in on the Sabbath, shall be gatekeepers,
- NLT This is what you must do. When you priests and Levites come on duty on the Sabbath, a third of you will serve as gatekeepers.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 24:3–6David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
- Luke 1:8–9Now while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his division,
- 1 Chr 23:3–6The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
- 1 Chr 9:25Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
- 1 Chr 26:13–16They cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.
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