Numbers 3:33-39 - The Numbering Of Merari

³³ Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari. ³⁴ And those numbered of them, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵ And the ruler of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They pitched on the side of the tabernacle northward. ³⁶ And the office and charge of the sons of Merari were the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and its vessels, and all its service, ³⁷ and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. ³⁸ And those who camp before the tabernacle toward the east, before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel. And the stranger that comes near shall die.

³⁹ All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of Jehovah, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.