Numbers 4:29-49

²⁹ "As for the sons of Merari , you shall number them by their families , by their fathers' households ; ³⁰ from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old , you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tent of meeting . ³¹ "Now this is the duty of their loads , for all their service in the tent of meeting : the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets , ³² and the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords , with all their equipment and with all their service ; and you shall assign each man by name the items he is to carry . ³³ "This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari , according to all their service in the tent of meeting , under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest ."

³⁴ So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families and by their fathers' households , ³⁵ from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old , everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting . ³⁶ Their numbered men by their families were 2,750 e e e . ³⁷ These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families , everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses . ³⁸ The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers' households , ³⁹ from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old , everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting . ⁴⁰ Their numbered men by their families , by their fathers' households , were 2,630 e e . ⁴¹ These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon , everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord . ⁴² The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families , by their fathers' households , ⁴³ from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old , everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting . ⁴⁴ Their numbered men by their families were 3,200 e e . ⁴⁵ These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari , whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses . ⁴⁶ All the numbered men of the Levites , whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered , by their families and by their fathers' households , ⁴⁷ from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old , everyone who could enter to do the work of service and the work of carrying in the tent of meeting . ⁴⁸ Their numbered men were 8,580 e e e e . ⁴⁹ According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses , they were numbered , everyone by his serving or carrying ; thus these were his numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses .