2 Chronicles 23:4
2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.
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;
5 And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
6 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
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- 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,
- 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;
- WEB
- 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 gatekeepers of the thresholds.
- ASV
- This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
- DARBY
- This is the thing which ye shall do: a third part of you that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be keepers of the doors;
- BLB
- This [is] the thing that you⁺ shall do: A third of you⁺ entering on the Sabbath of the priests and the Levites [shall be] gatekeepers of the thresholds,
- ÅB
- Hør nå hva dere skal gjøre: Den ene tredjedel av dere, de prester og levitter som tiltreder vakttjenesten på sabbaten, skal stå vakt ved dørtresklene,
- OTB
- Dette er hva dere skal gjøre: en tredjedel av dere, prestene og levittene som kommer inn på sabbaten, skal være portvoktere,
- B1930
- Hør nu hvad I skal gjøre: Den ene tredjedel av eder, de prester og levitter som tiltreder vakttjenesten på sabbaten, skal stå vakt ved dørtresklene,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 1:8–9
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,
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Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
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