24. This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties:
25. They are to transport the tabernacle curtains, the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering made of manatee skin on top of it, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,
26. the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. They will carry out everything that needs to be done with these items.
27. “All the service of the Gershonites, all their transportation duties and all their other work, is to be done at the command of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible to carry.
28. This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting, and their duties will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
29. “As for the Merarites, you are to register them by their clans and their ancestral houses.
30. Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.
31. This is what they are responsible to carry as the whole of their service at the tent of meeting: the supports of the tabernacle, with its crossbars, posts, and bases,
32. the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and all the work related to them. You are to assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
33. This is the service of the Merarite clans regarding all their work at the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
34. So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,
35. men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.
36. The men registered by their clans numbered 2,750.
37. These were the registered men of the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.
38. The Gershonites were registered by their clans and their ancestral houses,
39. men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.