Numbers 3:34

34 Their enrollment, counting all the males from a month old and upward, was six thousand two hundred.

Numbers 3:34 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:34

And those that were numbered of them
Of the above two families:

according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward,
[were] six thousand and two hundred;
6,200 men; the least number of them all.

Numbers 3:34 In-Context

32 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who had charge of the sanctuary.
33 To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari.
34 Their enrollment, counting all the males from a month old and upward, was six thousand two hundred.
35 The head of the ancestral house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.
36 The responsibility assigned to the sons of Merari was to be the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories—all the service pertaining to these;
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