And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your kindred, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, until the reign of Darius the Persian.