²⁸ According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.

^35 (A)from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting; ³⁶ and those listed by clans were 2,750.

³¹ And their guard duty involved ^(A)the ark, ^(B)the table, ^(C)the lampstand, ^(D)the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and ^(E)the screen; all the service connected with these.

⁷ They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, ^(A)as they minister at the tabernacle.