8They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.


In Context

5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.

7 The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.

8 They cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve:

10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:8 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:8Young and old alike, teacher as well as student, cast lots for their duties.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots, ward against [ward,] as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots with one another over the charges, the small as well as the great, the teacher with the scholar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots for their charges, all alike, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cause to fall lots — charge over-against charge, as well the small as the great, the intelligent with the learner.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:8And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.