45. These were those numbered from the families of the sons of Merari by Moses and Aaron in accordance with the mouth of Adonai by Moses’s hand.
46. Thus Moses, Aaron and the princes of Israel counted all the Levites by their families and by their ancestral houses.
47. All the men from 30 to 50 years old who came to do the work of the service and of carrying the Tent of Meeting
48. numbered 8,580.
49. From the mouth of Adonai by Moses’s hand, each man was assigned his work and his burden to carry. So they were counted, as Adonai commanded Moses.