Numbers 3:20

3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Numbers 3:33-34

The Numbering of Merari

3:33 From Merari came the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were ¹  the families of Merari. 3:34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

Numbers 10:21

10:21 And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; ²  the tabernacle was to be set up ³  before they arrived. ⁴ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “these they the families of Merari.” The independent personal pronoun has an anaphoric use, somewhat equivalent to the copula “and” (see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 23, §115).

¹ tn Heb “carrying the sanctuary,” a metonymy of whole for parts, representing all the holy objects that were located in the sanctuary.

² tn The verb is the third person plural form; without an expressed subject it is treated as a passive.

³ tn Heb “against their coming.”