5"Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow countrymen, the lay people.


In Context

2 He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the Lord 's temple.

3 He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the Lord : "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.

4 Prepare yourselves by families in your divisions, according to the directions written by David king of Israel and by his son Solomon.

5 "Stand in the holy place with a group of Levites for each subdivision of the families of your fellow countrymen, the lay people.

6 Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves and prepare the lambs for your fellow countrymen, doing what the Lord commanded through Moses."

7 Josiah provided for all the lay people who were there a total of thirty thousand sheep and goats for the Passover offerings, and also three thousand cattle-all from the king's own possessions.

2nd Chronicles 35:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And stand in the holy [place] according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and [after] the division of the families of the Levites.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And serve ye in the sanctuary by the families and companies of Levi.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers house of the Levites.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5and stand in the sanctuary for the classes of the fathers' houses, for your brethren, the children of the people, and according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of the Levites;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your brothers the children of the people, and [let there be for each] a portion of a fathers' house of the Levites.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:5and stand in the sanctuary, by the divisions of the house of the fathers of your brethren, sons of the people, and the portion of the house of a father of the Levites,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:5And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brothers the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.