“As for the Merarites, you are to register them by their clans and their ancestral families.
This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting, and their duties will be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Register men from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.
in addition to the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.
and gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen corresponding to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.