Ezra 2:41-43
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
41 The singers:[a] descendants of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight.
42 The gatekeepers:[b] descendants of Shallum, descendants of Ater, descendants of Talmon, descendants of Akkub, descendants of Hatita, descendants of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-nine in all.
43 The temple servants: descendants of Ziha, descendants of Hasupha, descendants of Tabbaoth,
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- 2:41 The singers: the term covers the composition as well as the rendition of liturgical music. Since they are listed as distinct from Levites (2:40), they had not yet attained levitical status, as in Chronicles (e.g., 1 Chr 9:33–34; 23:3–6).
- 2:42 The gatekeepers: their principal task was to protect the ritual purity of the temple area (e.g., 2 Chr 23:19). The author assumes that they were established by David as a distinct levitical category (1 Chr 15:18; 26:1–19).
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