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They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they had to guard it; and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.
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And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [thereof] was upon them; and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.
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They spent their nights in the vicinity of the house of God, because they were in charge of it; they were responsible for opening it up each morning.
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for they stayed round about the house of God during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning [pertained] to them.
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And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them [was] a responsibility. And {they had charge of opening [the house of God] every morning}.
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They spent the night in their positions around the house of God. That's because they had to guard it. They were in charge of the key that opened the temple each morning.
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Also they dwelled in their keepings by the compass of the temple of the Lord, that when time were, they should open the gates early. (And they lived in their residences about the Temple of the Lord, so that at the proper time, they could open the gates every morning.)