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And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These were the families of the Kohathites.

In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward were eight thousand and six hundred, keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.

The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward;

The ruler of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites being Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the veil, and all its service.

Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was ruler over the rulers of the Levites, and had the oversight of those that keep the charge of the sanctuary.