Numbers 4:29

29 The sons of Merari according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, take ye the number of them.

Numbers 4:29 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:29

As for the sons of Merari
The third and youngest son of Levi:

thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their
fathers;
which is the form of expression used of them all; (See Gill on Numbers 4:2).

Numbers 4:29 In-Context

27 According to the direction of Aaron and his sons shall be the ministry of the sons of Gedson, in all their ministries, and in all their works; and thou shalt take account of them by name in all things borne by them.

28 This is the service of the sons of Gedson in the tabernacle of witness, and their charge by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

29 The sons of Merari according to their families, according to the houses of their lineage, take ye the number of them.

30 Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until fifty years old, every one that goes in to perform the services of the tabernacle of witness.

31 And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.