Their relatives in their villages were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;I always did wonder as a teenager how the Levites decided who worked in the Temple. I knew from the Christmas story that there was some way that Levites not living in Jerusalem would have to come in, because that's what Zacharias was doing when he was spoken to by the angel. But how did they determine who was to come in when, or how often they had to serve in the Temple?
From what's said here, it's not clear what the arrangement was, but there definitely was one. If I'm reading this right, their service would consist of one week, presumably plus travel time. How often they had to come in isn't clear, though. I guess you could think of it as the Priestly Reserve, similar to how here in the US reservists have to serve for two weeks a year.
Of course, that makes me also wonder what they did the rest of the year, back home?
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