27. Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names:
28. All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary,
29. And shall camp on the south side.
30. And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:
31. And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind.
32. And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary.
33. And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names:
34. All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two hundred.
35. Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: they shall camp on the north side.
36. Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:
37. And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords.
38. Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side, shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death.
39. All the Levites, that Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
40. And the Lord said to Moses: Number the firstborn of the male sex of the children of Israel, from one month and upward, and thou shalt take the sum of them.
41. And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:
42. Moses reckoned up, as the Lord had commanded, the firstborn of the children of Israel:
43. And the males by their names, from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.