29. “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;
30. you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
31. This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
32. the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service. You shall appoint the instruments of the duty of their burden to them by name.
33. This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
34. Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
35. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.
36. Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand and seven hundred and fifty.
37. These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.
38. Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
39. from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
40. even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.
41. These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the Lord.