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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites, from among the Leuites.

Take also the summe of the sonnes of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families:

From thirtie yeeres old and vpward, vntill fiftie yeeres old shalt thou number them: all that enter in to performe the seruice, to doe the worke in the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to warre the warfare.

This is the seruice of the families of the Gershonites, to serue, and for burdens.

1611 marginal noteOr, carriage.

And they shall beare the curtaines of the Tabernacle, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation; his couering, and the couering of the badgers skinnes that is aboue vpon it, and the hanging for the doore of the Tabernacle of the Congregation:

And the hangings of the Court, and the hanging for the doore of the gate of the Court which is by the Tabernacle, and by the Altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their seruice, and all that is made for them: so shall they serue.

At the appointment of Aaron and his sonnes, shall be all the seruice of the sonnes of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their seruice: and yee shall appoint vnto them in charge all their burdens.

1611 marginal noteHebr. mouth.

This is the seruice of the families of the sonnes of Gershon, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and their charge shalbe vnder the hande of Ithamar the sonne of Aaron the Priest.

¶ As for the sonnes of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers:

From thirty yeeres old and vpward, euen vnto fiftie yeeres old shalt thou number them, euery one that entreth in to the seruice, to doe the worke of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

1611 marginal noteHebr. warfare.