Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.(1 Chronicles 24:1)

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.(1 Chronicles 24:2)

And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.(1 Chronicles 24:3)

And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.

Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.(1 Chronicles 24:5)

And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.(1 Chronicles 24:6)

Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,(1 Chronicles 24:7)

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1 Chronicles 24:4 - Cross Reference

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward. (1 Chronicles 23:24)

Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: (1 Chronicles 15:6)

Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. (Numbers 25:11)