This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”p>

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting;

These were those numbered from the families of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the <sc>Lordsc> by the authority of Moses.p>

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting &#8211;

These were those numbered from the families of the Gershonites, everyone who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting &#8211;

from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying<n id="1" /> relating to the tent of meeting &#8211;

On the eighth day he is to bring<n id="1" /> two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Now this is the law of the Nazirite: When the days of his separation are fulfilled, he must be brought<n id="1" /> to the entrance of the tent of meeting,

&#8220;Receive these gifts<n id="1" /> from them, that they may be<n id="2" /> used in doing the work<n id="3" /> of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man<n id="4" /> as his service requires.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;After this, the Levites will go in<n id="1" /> to do the work<n id="2" /> of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them<n id="3" /> and offer them like a wave offering.<n id="4" />

&#8220;This is what pertains to the Levites:<n id="1" /> At the age of twenty-five years<n id="2" /> and upward one may begin to join the company<n id="3" /> in the work of the tent of meeting,

They may assist<n id="1" /> their colleagues<n id="2" /> in the tent of meeting, to attend to needs, but they must do no work. This is the way you must establish<n id="3" /> the Levites regarding their duties.&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">On<n id="2" /> the day that the tabernacle was set up,<n id="3" /> the cloud<n id="4" /> covered the tabernacle &#8211; the tent of the testimony<n id="5" /> &#8211; and from evening until morning there was<n id="6" /> a fiery appearance<n id="7" /> over the tabernacle.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses heard the people weeping<n id="2" /> throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the <sc>Lordsc> was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Moses went out and told the people the words of the <sc>Lordsc>. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: &#8220;The three of you come to the tent of meeting.&#8221; So the three of them went.

When<n id="1" /> the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became<n id="2" /> leprous<n id="3" /> as snow. Then Aaron looked at<n id="4" /> Miriam, and she was leprous!p>

<p class="bodytext">However, the whole community threatened to stone them.<n id="1" /> But<n id="2" /> the glory<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to all the Israelites at the tent<n id="4" /> of meeting.p>

So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.