The number of all the males, from a month old and above, were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

The families of the sons of Kohath were to encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.

The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side according to their hosts; and the captain of the sons of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai: