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Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites. These were the families of Merari.

And those numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a son of a month and upward were six thousand and two hundred.

The ruler of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward.

The appointed duty of the sons of Merari being the boards of the tabernacle and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service;

and the pillars of the court all around, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

And those that were to encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tabernacle of the congregation, toward the sunrising, were Moses, and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the sons ofIsrael. And the stranger who goes near shall die.

All numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the mouth of Jehovah, by their families, all the males from a son of a month and upward were twenty two thousand.