1 Chronicles 25:8-31

The Allotment of the Courses

8. ward againstward] R.V. (guessing the sense rightly) for their charges (i.e. duties), all alike. The Hebrew text however is faulty.

the teacher as the scholar LXX. τελείων καὶ μανθανόντων (i.e. the initiated and the learners). For "the teacher" we should perhaps render "the skilful" as in 1 Chronicles 25:7, R.V.; the Heb. word is the same. It is to be noted that we have here twenty-four courses of singers corresponding with the twenty-four courses of the priests.