31. This is what they are responsible to carry as their entire service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets,
32. and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry.
33. This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
34. So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,
35. from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting;
36. and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750.
37. These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord by the authority of Moses.
38. Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,
39. from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting –
40. those of them numbered by their families, by their clans, were 2,630.