²⁰ The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

The Numbering of the Gershonites

²¹ From Gershon came the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. ²² Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.