Biblia the Byble, that is, the holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully translated in to Englyshe.

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[ A] ANd Dauid gathered all the rulers in Israel together, and the prestes & Le∣uites, to nombre y^e Leuites from thir¦tie yeare olde & aboue. And y^e nombre of thē (which were strōge men) frō heade to heade, was eight and thirtie thousande: of whom there were foure & twentie thousande, which dyd their diligence in the worke ouer y^e hou¦se of the LORDE, and sixe thousande officers and Iudges, and foure thousande porters, & foure thousande that songe prayses vnto y^e LORDE with instrumentes, which he had ma¦de to synge prayse with all.

And Dauid made the ordinaunce amon∣ge the children of Leui, namely amōge Ger¦son, Kahath & Merari. The Gersonites we∣re: Laedan and Simei. The children of Lae¦dan: the first, Iehiel, Sethan, and Ioel, the∣se thre.

The children of Simei were: Salomith, Hasiel and Haran, these thre. These were the chefe amonge the fathers of Laedan. The∣se also were the children of Simei: Iahath, Sina, Ieus and Bria, these foure were Si∣meis children also. Iahath was the first, Si∣na the seconde. As for Ieus and Bria, they had not many childrē, therfore were they coū¦ted but for one fathers house.

[ B] * 1.1 The childrē of Kahath were: Amram, Iezehar, Hebron and Vsiel, these foure. The childrē of Amram were: Aaron and Moses. * 1.2 As for Aaron, he was separated, to be sanc¦tified for the Most holy, he & his sonnes for euer, to burne incense before the LORDE, & to mynister and blesse in y^e name of the LOR¦DE for euermore. And the children of Moses the man of God were named amonge y^e try¦be of the Leuites. * 1.3 The childrē of Moses were Gerson and Elieser.

The children of Gerson, the fyrst was Se¦buel. The children of Elieser, the fyrst was Rehabia & Elieser had none other children. But y^e childrē of Rehabia were many ther ouer. The children of Iezehar were: Salo∣mith the fyrst. The children of Hebron were: Ieria the fyrst, Amaria the seconde, Iaha∣siel the thirde and Iakmeam y^e fourth. The children of Vsiel were: Micha the fyrst and Iesia the seconde.

[ C] The children of Merari were: Maheli & Musi. The children of Maheli were: Elea∣sar and Cis. And Eleasar dyed, and had no sonnes but doughters. And the children of Cis their brethren toke them. The children of Musi were: Maheli, Eder and Ieremoth, these thre. These are the children of Leui a∣monge their fathers houses, and the chefest of the fathers, which were counted after the nombre of y^e names heade by heade: which executed the worke of the offices in the hou¦se of the LORDE * 1.4 from thirtie yeare olde & aboue. For Dauid sayde: The LORDE God of Israel hath geuen his people rest, & shall dwell at Ierusalem for euer.

Amonge y^e Leuites also were the childrē [ D] of Leui nombred from thirtie yeare olde and aboue, * 1.5 that they neded not to beare y^e Ha¦bitacion with all the vessels of their office, but acordinge to y^e last wordes of Dauid, y^t they shulde stonde vnder the hande of the children of Aaron, to mynister in the house of the LORDE in the courte, and to the ches∣tes, and for purifyenge, and to all maner of sanctifyenge, and to euery worke of the offi∣ce in the house of God. And for y^e shewbred, for the fyne floure, for the meat offrynge, for the vnleuended wafers, for the pannes, for y^e fryenge, and for all maner of weight and measure. And in the mornynge to stonde for to geue thankes and to prayse the LORDE, and in the euenynge likewyse. And vpon all Sabbathes, Newmones and feastes to of∣fre all the burnt offerynges vnto the LOROE, acordinge to the nombre and ordre, allwaye before the LORDE: to wayte vpon the Taber¦nacle of witnesse and of the Sāctuary, and vpon their brethrē the children of Aaron, to mynister in the house of the LORDE.