So Moses obeyed and counted them.
Jacob's sons agreed to do what the king had said. And Joseph gave them wagons and food for their trip home, just as the king had ordered.
“Now I want you to count the men and boys in the Levi tribe by families and by clans. Include every one at least a month old.”
Levi's three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, had become the heads of their own clans.
So Moses and Aaron obeyed the LORD and counted the Levites by their clans. The total number of Levites at least one month old was twenty-two thousand.
Then he gave it to Aaron and his sons, just as the LORD had commanded.
and they will carry them wherever Aaron and his sons tell them to.