1 Chronicles 23:27-28

23:27 According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted. ¹ 

23:28 Their job was to help Aaron’s descendants in the service of the Lord’s temple. They were to take care of the courtyards, the rooms, ceremonial purification of all holy items, and other jobs related to the service of God’s temple. ² 

[23:27]  ¹ tn Heb “for by the final words of David, they were the number of the sons of Levi, from a son of twenty years and upward.”

[23:28]  ² tn Heb “For their assignment was at the hand of the sons of Aaron for the work of the house of the Lord concerning the courtyards and concerning the rooms and concerning the purification of all holiness and the work of the service of the house of God.”