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"Their service for the tent of meeting will be to carry the frames, crossbars, posts and sockets of the tabernacle;
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also the posts for the surrounding courtyard, with their sockets, tent pegs, ropes and other accessories, and everything having to do with their service. You are to assign particular loads to specific persons by name.
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This is how the M'rari families are to serve in the tent of meeting, directed by Itamar the son of Aharon the cohen."
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Moshe, Aharon and the community leaders took a census of the descendants of K'hat by their clans and families,
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all those between thirty and fifty years old who were part of the corps serving in the tent of meeting.
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Registered by their families, they numbered 2,750.
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These are the ones counted from the K'hat families of all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon enumerated, in keeping with the order given by ADONAI through Moshe.
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The census of the descendants of Gershon, by their clans and families,
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all those between thirty and fifty years old who were part of the corps serving in the tent of meeting,
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yielded 2,630, registered by their clans and families.
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These are the ones counted from the families of the descendants of Gershon of all those serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moshe and Aharon enumerated, in keeping with the order given by ADONAI.