31. This is what they are responsible to carry as the whole of their service at the tent of meeting: the supports of the tabernacle, with its crossbars, posts, and bases,
32. the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and all the work related to them. You are to assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
33. This is the service of the Merarite clans regarding all their work at the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
34. So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community registered the Kohathites by their clans and their ancestral houses,
35. men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.
36. The men registered by their clans numbered 2,750.
37. These were the registered men of the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.
38. The Gershonites were registered by their clans and their ancestral houses,
39. men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.
40. The men registered by their clans and their ancestral houses numbered 2,630.
41. These were the registered men of the Gershonite clans. At the Lord’s command Moses and Aaron registered everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting.
42. The men of the Merarite clans were registered by their clans and their ancestral houses,
43. those from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.
44. The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.
45. These were the registered men of the Merarite clans; Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.
46. Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel registered all the Levites by their clans and their ancestral houses,
47. from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified to do the work of serving at the tent of meeting and transporting it.
48. Their registered men numbered 8,580.
49. At the Lord’s command they were registered under the direction of Moses, each one according to his work and transportation duty, and his assignment was as the Lord commanded Moses.