“As for the Merarites, you shall enroll them by their clans and their ancestral houses;
also the pillars of the court all around, with their bases and pegs and cords.
This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites relating to the tent of meeting, and their duties are to be under the oversight of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
from thirty years old up to fifty years old you shall enroll them, everyone who qualifies to do the work of the tent of meeting.
and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the Merarites, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.