i.e. For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as for the gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary provisions, out of the several parts of the land. See 1 Chronicles 26:29.
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Nehemiah 11:16
16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.