Bible Reading: Book of Esdras

2 Esdras 12: 43-46

They appointed also in that day men over the storehouses of the treasure, for the libations, and for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, that the rulers of the city might bring them in by them in honor of thanksgiving, for the priests and Levites. For Juda was joyful in the priests and Levites that assisted. And they kept the watch of their God, and the observance of expiation, and the singing men, and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son. For in the days of David and Asaph from the beginning there were chief singers appointed, to praise with canticles, and give thanks to God. And all Israel, in the days of Zorobabel and in the days of Nehemias, gave portions to the singing men, and to the porters, day by day, and they sanctified the Levites, and the Levites sanctified the sons of Aaron.

(Saint Joseph New Catholic Edition 1962).