According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south.

And the leader of the father's household of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

And their charge shall be the Ark and the table and the lampstand and the altars and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they minister and the screen and all its service.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be leader of the leaders of the Levites and have the oversight of those who keep the charge of the sanctuary.

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

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

And the leader of the father's household of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the north.

And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets and all its equipment and all the service pertaining to it,

And the pillars around the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords.

And those who encamp before the tabernacle to the east, before the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

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

And Jehovah said to Moses, Number all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

And you shall take the Levites for Me — I am Jehovah — instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the children of Israel.

And Moses numbered, just as Jehovah commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

And all the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine; I am Jehovah.

And for the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel over and above the number of the Levites,

You shall take five shekels apiece per head; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them. (The shekel is twenty gerahs.)