Comentario sobre I Crónicas 24:4
וַיִּמָּצְא֣וּ בְֽנֵי־אֶלְעָזָ֡ר רַבִּ֞ים לְרָאשֵׁ֧י הַגְּבָרִ֛ים מִן־בְּנֵ֥י אִיתָמָ֖ר וַֽיַּחְלְק֑וּם לִבְנֵ֨י אֶלְעָזָ֜ר רָאשִׁ֤ים לְבֵית־אָבוֹת֙ שִׁשָּׁ֣ה עָשָׂ֔ר וְלִבְנֵ֧י אִיתָמָ֛ר לְבֵ֥ית אֲבוֹתָ֖ם שְׁמוֹנָֽה׃
Y los hijos de Eleazar fueron hallados, cuanto á sus principales varones, muchos más que los hijos de Ithamar; y repartiéronlos así: De los hijos de Eleazar había dieciséis cabezas de familias paternas; y de los hijos de Ithamar por las familias de sus padres, ocho.
Rashi on I Chronicles
and thus they were divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads of the fathers’ houses Originally, in the Tabernacle of Shiloh, there were no more than sixteen watches: eight from Eleazar and eight from Ithamar, as is delineated in Tractate Taanith (27), but when David saw that the men of Eleazar were many, he divided each watch of Eleazar into two and made them sixteen watches, but the watch of the sons of Ithamar he left as the watches had originally been, viz. of eight watches. This is proven immediately following (verse 6): “... one father’s house established for Eleazar, and what was established for Ithamar remained established,” i.e., as it was established [that they] be stationed as a watch in the Tabernacle, so did David station them now in the Temple.”
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