Numbers 4:29-49

²⁹ The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁰ Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. ³¹ And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases; ³² And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name. ³³ This is the work which the sons of Merari are to do in connection with the Tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

³⁴ So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses; ³⁵ Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting; ³⁶ And the number of all these was two thousand, seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ³⁸ And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families, ³⁹ All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁰ Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴² And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴³ All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting, ⁴⁴ Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred. ⁴⁵ This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord. ⁴⁶ And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses, ⁴⁷ Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, ⁴⁸ Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹ At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.