22All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
23So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh, even the house of the tent, by wards.
24On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
25Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
26for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
27They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
28Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out.
