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This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron reckoned up according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
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All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by the kindreds and houses of their fathers,
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From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old, that go into the ministry of the tabernacle, and to carry the burdens,
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Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
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Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the Lord, every one according to their office and burdens, as the Lord had commanded him.