3. And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
4. Of these, twenty-four thousand were to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges;
5. and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
6. And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonites: Laadan and Shimei.
8. The sons of Laadan: the head was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9. The sons of Shimei: Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief fathers of Laadan.
10. And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Ziza, and Jeush, and Beriah. These were the four sons of Shimei.
11. And Jahath was the head, and Ziza the second; and Jeush and Beriah had not many sons: as father's house, therefore, they were reckoned as one.