And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying: 15Number the sons of Levi by the houses of their fathers and their families, every male from one month and upward. 16Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded. 17And there were found sons of Levi by their names, Gerson and Caath Merari. 18The sons of Gerson: Lebni and Semei. 19The sons of Caath: Amram, and Jesaar, Hebron and Oziel: 20The sons of Merari, Moholi and Musi. 21Of Gerson were two families, the Lebnites, and the Semeites: 22Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred. 23These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west, 24Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael. 25And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant: 26The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof. 27Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names: 28All of the male sex from one month and upward, eight thousand six hundred: they shall have the guard of the sanctuary, 29And shall camp on the south side. 30And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel: 31And they shall keep the ark, and the table and the candlestick, the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary, wherewith they minister, and the veil, and all the furniture of this kind. 32And the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, shall be over them that watch for the guard of the sanctuary. 33And of Merari are the families of the Moholites, and Musites, reckoned up by their names: 34All of the male kind from one month and upward, six thousand two hundred. 35Their prince Suriel the son of Abihaiel: their shall camp on the north side. 36Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to this kind of service: 37And the pillars of the court round about with their sockets, and the pins with their cords. 38Before the tabernacle of the covenant, that is to say on the east side shall Moses and Aaron camp, with their sons, having the custody of the sanctuary, in the midst of the children of Israel. What stranger soever cometh unto it, shall be put to death. 39All the Levites, that I Moses and Aaron numbered according to the precept of the Lord, by their f families, of the male kind from one month and upward, were twenty-two thousand.