As for the total enrollment of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron and the Israelite leaders had made, by clans and ancestral houses,
The Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their total number was found to be thirty-eight thousand.
The priests were inscribed in their family records according to their ancestral houses, as were the Levites twenty years of age and over according to their various offices and divisions.
Such was the enrollment of the clans of the Merarites, whom Moses enrolled, together with Aaron, as the Lord directed through Moses.
all between thirty and fifty years of age who were to undertake tasks of service or transport for the tent of meeting—