“Count the Merarites by their clans and families.
as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs and ropes.
This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their work required. They were all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
