30. sons 30 years old and upward to 50, everyone coming to work in the service of the Tent of Meeting.
31. This is their task in the service of the Tent of Meeting: the frames of the Tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,
32. as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard, plus their bases, tent pegs, ropes, and all their paraphernalia with everything related to their operation. Assign to them by name their duties and tasks.
33. This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari as they work under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen.”
34. So Moses, Aaron and the princes of the community counted the sons of the Kohathites according to their families and their ancestral households.
35. All the men who came to do the service of the Tent of Meeting, from 30 to 50 years of age,
36. were counted by families—2,750.
37. This was the total of those in the families of the Kohathites, every one serving in the Tent of Meeting—Moses and Aaron counted them according to the mouth of Adonai by Moses’s hand.
38. The sons of Gershon were counted according to their families and their ancestral households.