Duties of the Sons of Merari

²⁹ “As for the sons of ^(A)Merari, you shall number them by their families and by their fathers’ house. ^30 (B)From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tabernacle of meeting. ³¹ And ^(C)this is ^(D)what they must carry as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting: ^(E)the boards of the tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, ³² and the pillars around the court with their sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their furnishings and all their service; and you shall ^(F)assign to each man by name the items he must carry. ³³ This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the tabernacle of meeting, under the ^[a]authority of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”