Numbers 4:21-32
Duties of the Gershonites
21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 22“Take a ▼▼Lit sum
census of the sons of Gershon ▼▼Lit also them
also, by their fathers’ households, by their families; 23from cthirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall ▼▼Lit muster, and so throughout the ch
count them: all who can enter to perform service, to do the work in the tent of meeting. 24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying: 25they shall carry ethe curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and fthe covering of fine leather that is on top of it, and the curtain for the entrance of the tent of meeting, 26and gthe curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance of the gate of the courtyard that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their ropes and all the equipment for their service; and everything that is to be done ▼▼Or to them
by them, ▼▼Lit so they shall serve
they shall perform. 27All the service of the sons of the Gershonites, that is, all their loads and all their work, shall be performed at the ▼▼Lit mouth
command of Aaron and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a duty all their loads. 28This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting; and their duties shall be ▼▼Lit in the hand
under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. Duties of the Merarites
29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall count them by their families, by their fathers’ households; 30from lthirty 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. 31Now 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, 32and 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 ▼▼Lit of the duty of their loads
that each is to carry.
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