5. and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.]
6. And David distributeth them into courses: Of the sons of Levi: of Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
7. Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.
8. Sons of Laadan: the head [is] Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
9. Sons of Shimei [are] Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three; these [are] heads of the fathers of Laadan.
10. And sons of Shimei [are] Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah; these [are] sons of Shimei, four.
11. And Jahath is the head, and Zizah the second, and Jeush and Beriah have not multiplied sons, and they become the house of a father by one numbering.
12. Sons of Kohath [are] Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.