According to the number of all the males, from a month old and above, [there were] eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of the sanctuary.

The families of the children of Kohath were to camp 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 forces with Dan [shall be] on the north side according to their armies, and the leader of the children of Dan [shall be] Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai."