31. And their charge [is] the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service.
32. And [to] the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, [is] the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.
33. Of Merari [is] the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these [are] the families of Merari.
34. And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, [are] six thousand and two hundred.
35. And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari [is] Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward.
36. And the oversight--the charge of the sons of Merari--[is] the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service,