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The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to the Lord, all of whom were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight. They cast lots for their offices, all alike, the least as well as the greatest, the teacher as well as the student.

So the first lot came out for Asaph’s son Joseph. ⎣He and his brothers and sons totaled twelve.⎦[a]
    The second lot fell to Gedaliah, his brothers and sons, twelve,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 25:9 The words in half-brackets, he and his brothers and sons totaled twelve, are missing from the Hebrew text of this verse, but they are necessary for the total of 288 to come out right.