Then the Tent would be taken down, and the clans of Gershon and Merari, who carried it, would start out.

Then the Levite clan of Kohath would start out, carrying the sacred objects. By the time they arrived at the next camp, the Tent had been set up again.

Ask one clan chief from each tribe to help you."

The total number of the people of Israel enrolled in the divisions, group by group, was 603,550.

to register the Levites by clans and families, enrolling every male a month old or older,

(SEE 3:17)

Following the LORD's command, Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the community took a census of the three Levite clans, Kohath, Gershon, and Merari. They did this by subclans and families and registered all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who were qualified to work in the Tent of the LORD's presence, as follows: (Clan: Number); Kohath: 2,750; Gershon: 2,630; Merari: 3,200; Total: 8,580

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"You and Aaron are to take a census of the people of Israel by clans and families. List the names of all the men

called together the whole community on the first day of the second month and registered all the people by clans and families. The names of all the men twenty years old or older were recorded and counted,

(SEE 1:20)

For each one pay five pieces of silver, according to the official standard,

He took a census of all the male Levites aged thirty or older. The total was thirty-eight thousand.

On the basis of David's final instructions all Levites were registered for service when they reached the age of twenty,

twenty years old or older who are fit for military service.

and to register all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who were qualified to work in the Tent of the LORD's presence.

"From the age of twenty-five each Levite shall perform his duties in the Tent of my presence,

So in the second month of the year after they came back to the site of the Temple in Jerusalem, they began work. Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the rest of their people, the priests, and the Levites, in fact all the exiles who had come back to Jerusalem, joined in the work. All the Levites twenty years of age or older were put in charge of the work of rebuilding the Temple.