# by the name of your ancestral houses and your divisions The word "name" is a collective noun, referring to each name of each ancestral house and each division. Your language may need to say "according to the names of your ancestral houses and your divisions." # your ancestral houses The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house. AT: "the families that are descendants of your ancestors" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]]) # divisions groups into which the people had divided the priests and Levites # the written instructions of David ... and those of Solomon, his son "the instructions that David ... and Solomon, his son, wrote"