The Duties of the Merarites
Numbers 3:33-39
33
Of Merari came the familie of the Mahlites, and the familie of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.
34
And the summe of them, according to the nomber of all the males, from a moneth olde and aboue was sixe thousand and two hundreth.
35
The captaine and the ancient of the house of the families of Merari shalbe Zuriel the sonne of Abihail: they shall pitche on the Northside of the Tabernacle.
36
And in ye charge and custodie of the sonnes of Merari shall be the boardes of the Tabernacle, and the barres thereof, and his pillars, and his sockets, and al the instruments therof, and al that serueth thereto,
37
With the pillars of the court round about, with their sockets, and their pins and their coardes.
38
Also on the forefront of the Tabernacle toward the East, before the Tabernacle, I say, of the Congregation Eastwarde shall Moses and Aaron and his sonnes pitch, hauing the charge of the Sanctuarie, and the charge of the children of Israel: but the stranger that commeth neere, shall be slayne.
39
The wholesumme of ye Leuites, which Moses and Aaron nombred at the commandement of the Lord throughout their families, euen al the males from a moneth olde and aboue, was two and twentie thousand.
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