the scribe, one of the Levites Particularly described in order to distinguish him from the king's scribe(cp. 2 Chronicles 24:11).

one principal household R.V. one fathers" house.

one taken R.V. one taken (without italics) by an easy emendation of the Hebrew. The alternate drawing here described could have lasted only for the first sixteen lots; in the last eight drawings the descendants of Eleazar must have drawn against each other only; cp. 1 Chronicles 24:4.

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