1 Chronicles 23:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ ‘Twenty-four thousand of these’, David said, ‘shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, six thousand shall be officers and judges, ⁵ four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.’ ⁶ And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon,^[a] Kohath, and Merari.