²⁸ Counting all the males, from a month old and up, there were eight thousand six hundred performing the duties of the sanctuary.

³⁵ from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who qualified for work relating to the tent of meeting, ³⁶ and their enrollment by clans was two thousand seven hundred fifty.

³¹ Their responsibility was the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen—all the service pertaining to these.

⁷ They shall perform duties for him and for the whole congregation in front of the tent of meeting, doing service at the tabernacle;