45
This was the total from the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them just as God had commanded through Moses.
46
So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel counted all the Levites by clan and family.
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All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting
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