1 Chronicles 9:26-33

9:26 The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary. ¹  9:27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, ²  for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning. 9:28 Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out. ³  9:29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, ⁴  as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices. 9:30 (But some of the priests mixed the spices.) 9:31 Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son ⁵  of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings. 9:32 Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.

9:33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary ⁶  and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

¹ tn Heb “in the house of God.”

² tn Heb “in the house of God.”

³ tn Heb “and from them over the articles of the task, for by number they would bring them in, and by number they would bring them out.”

⁴ tn Heb “holy place.”

⁵ tn The word “son” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

⁶ tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.