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"As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers' households;

from ^(C1)thirty years old and upward, even to fifty years old, you shall count them, everyone who can enter the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.

"Now this is the duty of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, and its bases,

and the pillars around the courtyard and their bases, their pegs, and their ropes, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign by names of the men the items ^(F1)that each is to carry.

"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, ^(F1)under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."