Divisions of the Levitical Priesthood

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“Shemayah the son of Netan'el the Sofer, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, and the princes, and Tzadok the Kohen, and Achimelekh the son of Avyatar, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Kohanim and of the Levites; one fathers' house being taken for El`azar, and one taken for Itamar. Now the first lot came forth to Yehoiariv, the second to Yedayah, the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, the fifth to Malkiyah, the sixth to Miyamin, the seventh to Hakkotz, the eighth to Aviyah, the ninth to Yeshua, the tenth to Shekhanyahu, the eleventh to Elyashiv, the twelfth to Yakim, the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Yeshebeab, the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, the seventeenth to Hetzir, the eighteenth to Happizzez, the nineteenth to Petachyah, the twentieth to Yechezkel, the one and twentieth to Yakhin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, the three and twentieth to Delayah, the four and twentieth to Ma`azyah. This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of the LORD according to the ordinance [given] to them by Aharon their father, as the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, had commanded him.” (1 Chron. 24:6-18)