The Levites the chiefs of the families in the days of Eliasib, and Joiada, and Johanan, and Jeddoa, were recorded: and the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.
And he said to them: You that are the heads of the Levitical families, be sanctified with your brethren; and bring the ark of the Lord the God of Israel to the place, which is prepared for it:
And there were found many more of the sons of Eleazar among the principal men than of the sons of Ithamar. And he divided them so, that there were of the sons of Eleazar sixteen chief men by their families: and of the sons of Ithamar eight by their families and houses.