Numbers 3:33-39 - The Numbering Of Merari

³³ And of Merari came the kindreds of the Mahlites and of the Mushites: and these are the kindreds of the Merarites. ³⁴ And the number of them - when all the males from a month old and above was told - drew unto six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵ And the captain of the most ancient house among the kindreds of the Merarites, was Zuriel the son of Abihail, which pitched on the north side of the dwelling. ³⁶ And the office of the sons of Merari was the boards of the dwelling and the bars, pillars with the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof and all that served thereto: ³⁷ and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets, with their pins and cords. ³⁸ "But on the forefront of the habitation and before the tabernacle of witness eastward, shall Moses and Aaron and his sons pitch and wait on the sanctuary in the stead of the children of Israel. And the stranger that cometh nigh shall die for it."

³⁹ And the whole sum of the Levites which Moses and Aaron numbered, at the commandment of the LORD - throughout their kindreds, even of all the males of a month old and above - was twenty two thousand.