1 Chronicles 23:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ The Levites who were thirty years and older were counted, and the total number of them was thirty-eight thousand. ⁴ David appointed twenty-four thousand of them to supervise the work on the temple of the Lord, and another six thousand of them were to be officials and judges. ⁵ Four thousand of them were to be gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise the Lord upon musical instruments about which David said, “I made them to praise the Lord.”