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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXIII. King Dauid being old constituteth Salomon king. 3. disposeth the offices of Leuites. 7. to wit, the families of Gerson, 12. of Caath, 21. and of Merari: (26, cea&esset;ing to carrie the tabernacle.) 27. to serue in the temple.

1   David therfore being old & ful of daies, made Salomon his sonne king ouer Israel.

2   And he gathered al the princes of Israel, and the Priestes and Leuites.

3   And the Leuites were numbred from thirtie yeares, & vpward: and there were found thirtie eight thousand men.

4   Of these were chosen, and distributed into the ministerie of the house of our Lord foure and twentie thousand: and of the ouerseers and iudges, six thousand.

5   Moreouer foure thousand porters: and as manie singing to our Lord on instrumentes, which he had made to sing on.

6   And note Dauid distributed them by the courses of the children of Leui, to witte, of Gerson, and Caath, and Merari.

7   The sonnes of Gerson: Leedan, and Semei.

8   The sonnes of Leedan: the prince Iahiel, & Zethan, and Ioel, three.

9   The sonnes of Semei: Salomith, and Hosiel, and Aram, three: these be the princes of the familes of Leedan.

10   Moreouer the sonnes of Semei: Leheth, and Ziza, and Iaus, and Baria: these be the sonnes of Semei, foure.

11   And Leheth was the first, Ziza the second: moreouer Iaus and Baria had not manie children, and therfore they were counted in one familie, and in one house.

12   The children of Caath: Amram, and Isaar, Hebron, and Oziel, foure.

13   The sonnes of Amram, Aaron, and Moyses. And Aaron was seperated to minister in Sanctasanctorum, he and his sonnes for euer, and to burne incense to our Lord according to his rite, and to blesse his name for euer.

14   The sonnes of Moyses also the man of God were numbred in the tribe of Leui.

15   The sonnes of Moyses: Gersom and Eliezari: the sonnes of Gersom: Subuel the first.

16   And the sonnes of Eliezer were: Rohobia the first: and Eleezer had noe moe sonnes. Moreouer the children of Rohobia were multiplied excedingly.

18   The sonnes of Isaar: Salomith the first.

19   The sonnes of Hebron: Ieriau the first, Amarias the second, Iahaziel the third, Iecmaan the fourth.

20   The sonnes of Oziel: Micha the first, Iesia the second.

21   The sonnes of Merari: Moholi, & Musi. The sonnes of Moholi: Eleazar and Cis.

22   And Eleazar died, and had no sonnes but daughters.

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Dauid. and the sonnes of Cis their brethren tooke them.

23   The sonnes of Musi: Moholi, and Eder, and Ierimoth, three.

24   These be the children of Leui in their kinredes and families, princes by courses, and number of euerie head, that did the workes of ministerie of the house of our Lord from twentie yeares, and vpward.

25   For Dauid sayd: Our Lord the God of Israel hath geuen rest to his people, and the habitation of Ierusalem for euer.

26   Neither shal it be the office of the Leuites to carie any more the tabernacle, and al the vessels therof to minister.

27   According to the last preceptes also of Dauid the number of the children of Leui shalbe numbred from twentie yeares and vpward.

28   And they shal be vnder the hand of the sonnes of Aaron for the seruice of the house of our Lord, in the entrances, and in the chambers, and in the place of purification, and in the Sanctuarie, and in al the workes of the ministerie of the temple of our Lord.

29   And the Priestes, ouer the loaues of proposition, and for the sacrifice of floure, and for cakes and azimes, and the frying panne, and to rost, and ouer al weight and measure.

30   But the Leuites to stand in the morning to confesse, and sing to our Lord: and in like maner at euening,

31   as wel in the oblation of the holocaustes of our Lord, as in the Sabbathes and Calendes, and the rest of the solemnities, according to the number, and ceremonies of euerie thing, continually before our Lord.

32   And let them keepe the obseruations of the tabernacle of couenant, and the rite of the Sanctuarie, and the obseruance of the children of Aaron their brethren, that they minister in the house of our Lord.
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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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