1 Chronicles 9:27-34

9:27 They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, ¹  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. ²  9:29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, ³  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 ⁴  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 ⁵  and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks. 9:34 These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.

[9:27]  ¹ tn Heb “in the house of God.”

[9:28]  ² 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.”

[9:29]  ³ tn Heb “holy place.”

[9:31]  ⁴ tn The word “son” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

[9:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “were in rooms.” The words “at the sanctuary” are supplied in the translation for clarification.