31 And they themselves also proceeded to cast lots+ exactly as their brothers the sons of Aaron did before David the king and Zaʹdok and A·himʹe·lech and the heads of the paternal houses of the priests and of the Levites. As respects paternal houses,+ the head one was exactly as his younger brother.

27 As for the sons of Israel by their number, the heads of the paternal+ houses and the chiefs+ of the thousands and of the hundreds+ and their officers that were ministering+ to the king in every matter of the divisions of those that came in and that went out month by month for all the months of the year, each division was twenty-four thousand.