Numbers 4:28-33
28This is the service of the clans of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty is to be aunder the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.29“As for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their fathers’ houses. 30 bFrom thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting. 31And cthis is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases, 32and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you shall dlist by name the objects that they are required to carry. 33This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting, eunder the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
Ezra 8:26-30
26 fI weighed out into their hand 650 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, ▼▼Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text
and 100 talents of gold, 2720 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, ▼▼A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams
and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28And I said to them, j“You are holy to the Lord, and kthe vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord, the God of your fathers. 29Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, lwithin the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30So the priests and the Levites mtook over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.
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