1 Chronicles 9:25
Good News Translation
These guards were assisted by their relatives, who lived in the villages and who had to take turns at guard duty for seven days at a time.

New Revised Standard Version
and their kindred who were in their villages were obliged to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with them;

Contemporary English Version
Their assistants lived in the villages outside the city, and every seven days a group of them would come into the city and take their turn at guard duty.

New American Bible
Their brothers who lived in their own villages took turns in assisting them for seven-day periods,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

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And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.

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2 Kings 11:5,7 And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do. . . .

2 Chronicles 23:8 So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.

Context
The People of Jerusalem
24In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the east, and west, and north, and south. 25And their brethren dwelt in village, and came upon their sabbath days from time to time.26To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Kings 11:5
And he commanded them, saying: This is the thing that you must do.

2 Kings 11:7
But let two parts of you all that go forth on the sabbath, keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

1 Chronicles 9:24
In four quarters were the porters: that is to say, toward the east, and west, and north, and south.

1 Chronicles 9:26
To these four Levites were committed the whole number of the porters, and they were over the chambers, and treasures, of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 24:19
These are their courses according to their ministries, to come into the house of the Lord, and according to their manner under the hand of Aaron their father: as the Lord the God of Israel had commanded.

2 Chronicles 23:4
And this is the thing that you shall do:

2 Chronicles 23:8
So the Levites, and all Juda did according to all that Joiada the high priest had commanded: and they took every one his men that were under him, and that came in by the course of the sabbath, with those who had fulfilled the sabbath, and were to go out. For Joiada the high priest permitted not the companies to depart, which were accustomed to succeed one another every week.

1 Chronicles 9:24
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