Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral families,
These were the registered men of the Merarite clans; Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.
from thirty years old to fifty years old, everyone who was qualified to do the work of serving at the tent of meeting and transporting it.
The Levites thirty years old or more were counted; the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand by headcount.
They distributed also to those recorded by genealogy of the priests by their ancestral families and the Levites twenty years old and above, by their responsibilities in their divisions;