⁴ “Of these,” David said, “twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work on the Lord’s temple,^(A) six thousand are to be officers and judges,^(B)

²⁴ These were the descendants of Levi by their ancestral families^[a]—the family heads, according to their registration by name in the headcount—twenty years old or more, who worked in the service of the Lord’s temple.^(A)