Catholic Public Domain Version
"Now the number of these, with their brothers, who were instructing in the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred eighty-eight. "
— 1 Chronicles 25:7, Catholic Public Domain Version
“So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.”
“And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing unto Jehovah, even all that were skilful, was two hundred fourscore and eight. ”
“The number of them, with their brothers who were instructed in singing to Yahweh, even all who were skillful, was two hundred eighty-eight.”
“They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the LORD, numbered two hundred eighty-eight.”
“And the number of them with their brethren, that taught the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred and eighty-eight.”
“And the number of them, with their brothers who were trained and expert in making melody to the Lord, was two hundred and eighty-eight.”
“So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the Lord, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.”
Also, of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, and Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.
All these were the sons of Heman, the seer of the king in the words of God, in order to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
All these, under their father’s hand, were distributed in order to sing in the temple of the Lord, with cymbals and psalteries and harps, in the ministry of the house of the Lord beside the king, specifically, Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman.
Now the number of these, with their brothers, who were instructing in the song of the Lord, all the teachers, were two hundred eighty-eight.
And they cast lots in their turns, the elder equally with the younger, the learned together with the unlearned.
And the first lot went forth to Joseph, who was of Asaph; the second went forth to Gedaliah, to him and his sons and his brothers, twelve.
The third went to Zaccur, to his sons and brothers, twelve.