1 Chronicles 24:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ They were chosen by impartial lottery, since there were trustees^[a] of the sanctuary and officers of God among both Eleazar’s descendants and among Ithamar’s descendants. ⁶ Nethanel’s son Shemaiah, a Levitical scribe, made an official record of them for the king, the officers, Zadok the priest, Abiathar’s son Ahimelech, and the heads of ancestral households of both the priests and the descendants of Levi. One ancestral house was chosen for Eleazar and one for Ithamar.

⁷ The first lottery was chosen in favor of Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah,