These are those who were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered according to the mitzvah of the LORD by Moshe.
*As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;
even those who were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
All those who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moshe and Aharon and the princes of Yisra'el numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,