These were the sons of Levi in their kindreds and meines, and they were princes by whiles, and the number of all the heads, that did the travail of the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years and above.
This is the office of the meine of Merarites, and the service in the tabernacle of the bond of peace; and they shall be under the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron, the priest.