For the divisions of the gatekeepers: Of the Qorḥ
Hear this, all you peoples; Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
O Elohim, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have related to us, The work You did in their days, In the days of old.
And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the House of יהוה, so that no one who was in any way unclean should enter.
and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zeḵ
son of Taḥ
the twenty-fourth Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
And the sons of Meshelemyahu: Zeḵ
And according to the ruling of Dawiḏ
“And they were attendants in My set-apart place, as gatekeepers of the house and attendants of the house, slaughtering the burnt offering and the offering for the people, and standing before them to attend to them.
And of the Lĕ
and four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand to give praise to יהוה, “which I made for giving praise.”
And Meshelemyahu had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.
