32. as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry.
33. This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.”
34. Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families.
35. All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,
36. counted by clans, were 2,750.
37. This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the Lord’s command through Moses.