²⁰ The sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers’ houses.

³³ Of Merari were the families of the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari.

³⁴ Their number of all the males from a month old and upward totaled 6,200.

³⁵ And the head of the fathers’ houses of the families of Merari was Zuriel son of Abihail; the Merarites were to encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.

³⁶ And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari was the boards or frames of the tabernacle, and its bars, pillars, sockets or bases, and all the accessories or instruments of it, and all the work connected with them,

³⁷ And the pillars of the surrounding court and their sockets or bases, with their pegs and their cords.