<p class="bodytext">From the Levites:p> <p class="bodytext">Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah a descendant of Merari;

Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath.p>

<p class="bodytext">David, Zadok (a descendant of Eleazar), and Ahimelech (a descendant of Ithamar) divided them into groups to carry out their assigned responsibilities.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel;p> <p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;p>

<p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei;p> <p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.p>

The singers<n id="1" /> were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Surely you know<n id="1" /> that it has been from old,p> <p class="poetry">ever since humankind was placed<n id="2" /> on the earth,p>

<p class="poetry">I realized that wisdom is preferable to folly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">just as light is preferable to darkness:p>

<p class="poetry">Turn aside from the way,p> <p class="poetry">stray off the path.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.<n id="1" />p>

It grew so big it reached the army<n id="1" /> of heaven, and it brought about the fall of some of the army and some of the stars<n id="2" /> to the ground, where it trampled them.

with a bud under the first<n id="1" /> two branches from it, and a bud under the next<n id="2" /> two branches from it, and a bud under the third<n id="3" /> two branches from it, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

with a bud under the first two branches from it, and a bud under the next two branches from it, and a bud under the third two branches from it; according to the six branches that extended from it.<n id="1" />

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When<n id="1" /> someone<n id="2" /> among you presents an offering<n id="3" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="4" /> you<n id="5" /> must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.<n id="6" />p>

But if the priest has examined it and<n id="1" /> the infection has faded after it has been washed, he is to tear it out of<n id="2" /> the garment or the leather or the warp or the woof.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must exact<n id="1" /> a tribute for the <sc>Lordsc> from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

<p class="bodytext">At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country<n id="1" /> &#8211; from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel.<n id="2" /> Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

<p class="bodytext">From the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the priests:p> <p class="bodytext">Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jakin;

(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)