And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
They organized the priests into their assigned groups and the Levites into their rotating teams to serve God in Jerusalem, following the instructions written in the book of Moses.
The writer is describing how the Jewish leaders carefully organized the temple worship according to God's original instructions given through Moses.
📚 Historical Context
This verse describes events around 516 BC when the Jewish exiles had returned from Babylon and rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. They were reestablishing proper temple worship after decades of exile, carefully following the organizational system that Moses had originally set up for the priests and Levites centuries earlier. The 'book of Moses' refers to the first five books of the Bible, which contained detailed instructions for temple service.
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