Numbers 3:14-39 - The Levitical Census
14 Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, in the desert of Sinai, saying: - 15 Number thou the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses, by their families, - every male, from one month old and upwards, shalt thou number them. 16 So then Moses numbered them according to the bidding of Yahweh, - as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sons of Levi, by their names, - Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these, the names of the sons of Gershon by their families, - Libni and Shimei. 19 And, the sons of Kohath, by their families Amram, and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their families, Mahli and Mushi. These, are they - the families of the Levites by their ancestral houses. 21 To, Gershon, belonged the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites, - these, are they - the families of the Gershonites. 22 They who were numbered of them in the counting of every male, from one month old, and upwards, - they who were num-bered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred. 23 the families of the Gershonites, to the rear of the habitation, were to encamp, westward. 24 And, the prince of the ancestral house of the Gershonites, was Eliasaph son of Lael. 25 And, the charge, of the sons of Gershon, was over the tent of meeting, the habitation, and the tent, - the covering thereof, and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting; 26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the court which was near the habitation and near the altar, round about, - and the cords thereof, as to all the laborious work thereof. 27 And to Kohath, belonged the family of the Amramites and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites, - these, are they - the families of the Kohathites. 28 In, the counting of every male, from one month old and upwards, there were eight thousand and six hundred, to keep the charge of the sanctuary. 29 The, families of the sons of Kohath, were to encamp, - on the side of the habitation, south-ward. 30 And the prince of the ancestral house of the families of the Kohathites, was Elizaphan, son of Uzziel. 31 And their charge, was - the ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary wherewith they were to minister, - and the screen, as to all the laborious work thereof. 32 And the prince of the princes of the Levites, was Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, - to have the oversight of them that were to keep the charge of the sanctuary. 33 To Merari, belonged the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites, - these, are they - the families of Merari. 34 And they who were numbered of them in the counting of every male, from one month old and upwards, were six thousand, and two hundred. 35 And the prince of the ancestral house of the families of Merari, was Zuriel son of Abihail, - on the side of the habitation, were they to encamp northward. 36 And the oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari, was - the boards of the habitation, and the bars thereof and the pillars thereof and the sockets thereof, - and all the furniture thereof, as to all the laborious work thereof; 37 also the pillars of the court round about and their sockets, - and their pins and their cords. 38 But, they who were to encamp before the habitation eastwards before the tent of meeting, towards sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons. to keep the charge of the sanctuary, as the charge of the sons of Israel and, the stranger that came near, was to be put to death.
39 All they who were numbered of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the bidding of Yahweh by their families, - every male, from one month old and upwards, were two-and-twenty thousand.