NET Bible
"They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning."
— 1 Chronicles 9:27, NET Bible
“And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.”
“And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge thereof was upon them; and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning. ”
“They lodged around the house of God, because that duty was on them; and to them pertained its opening morning by morning.”
“And they abode in their watches round about the temple of the Lord: that when it was time, they might open the gates in the morning.”
“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.”
“And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.”
The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides– east, west, north, and south.
Their relatives, who lived in their settlements, came from time to time and served with them for seven-day periods.
The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary.
They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.
Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.
Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.
(But some of the priests mixed the spices.)