Study it in the app“They divided them by lots, these with those, for there were chiefs of the sanctuary and chiefs of Elohim among the sons of Eleazar and among the sons of Ithamar.”
They divided themוַיַּחְלְקוּםby lots,בְּגוֹרָלוֹתtheseאֵלֶּהwithעִםthose,אֵלֶּהforכִּיthere wereהָיוּchiefsשָׂרֵיof the sanctuaryקֹדֶשׁand chiefsוְשָׂרֵיof Elohimהָאֱלֹהִיםamong the sonsמִבְּנֵיof Eleazarאֶלְעָזָרand among the sonsוּבִבְנֵיof Ithamar.אִיתָמָר
divide
To give each one their part.
Where else “yachlku” appearslot
Small stones cast to decide something.
Where else “goralot” appearsexist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayu” appearschief
Someone set over others, in the army or in the state.
Where else “sare” appearssanctuary
The sacred enclosure where God was served: the sanctuary and its innermost room.
Where else “kodesh” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsEleazar
Eleazar: the name of several Israelites, above all the third son of Aaron, who succeeded him as high priest.
Where else “elazar” appearsIthamar
Ithamar: the youngest son of Aaron.
Where else “itamar” appears4The sons of Eleazar were found more numerous in heads of men than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them thus: of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, by their fathers’ houses, eight.
5 · This verse (above)
6Shemaiah son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king and the chiefs and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites: one father’s house taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
