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1 Chronicles 9:27
Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.
1 Chronicles 9:27 · Bible in Basic English
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1 Chronicles 9:27 in other translations
And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they were responsible for guarding it and opening it every morning.
They stayed around God’s house, because that was their duty; and it was their duty to open it morning by morning.
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In context
24 There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.
25 And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.
26 For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.
27 Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.
28 Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.
29 And some of them were responsible for the holy things and for the vessels of the holy place, and the meal and the wine and the oil and the perfume and the spices.
30 And some of the sons of the priests were responsible for crushing the spices.
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