28. In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
29. The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle towards the Negev;
30. and the prince of the house of the father of the families of Kohath, Elizaphan, son of Uzziel.
31. And their charge shall be the ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, with all its service.
32. And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be principal over the princes of the Levites and have the oversight of those that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
33. Of Merari was the family of Mahli and the family of Mushi; these are the families of Merari.
34. And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred;