1 Chronicles 24:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ These also cast lots corresponding to their kindred, the descendants of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of ancestral houses of the priests and of the Levites, the chief as well as the youngest brother.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ These likewise cast lots, as did their kinsmen the sons of Aaron, in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and Levites–the head of each father's house and his younger brother alike.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ These likewise cast lots even as their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ houses of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

Common English Bible

³¹ Both the household head and his youngest brother cast lots, just as their relatives, Aaron’s descendants, had done in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the priestly and levitical households.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ And they also cast lots concerning their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the leaders of the priestly and Levitical families, as much concerning the elder as the younger. The lot divided all things equitably.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ And they also cast lots over against their brethren, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, and Sadoc, and Ahimelech, and the princes of the priestly and Levitical families, both the elder and the younger. The lot divided all equally.

1 Chronicles 24:31 Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:30

The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their ancestral houses.

1 Chronicles 25:8

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

1 Chronicles 26:13

and they cast lots by ancestral houses, small and great alike, for their gates.

2 Chronicles 1:2

Solomon summoned all Israel, the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel, the heads of families.

2 Chronicles 31:15

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their kindred, old and young alike, by divisions,

Numbers 26:56

Their inheritance shall be apportioned according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”