Numbers 4:29
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New International Version (©2011)
"Count the Merarites by their clans and families.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Now record the names of the members of the clans and families of the Merarite division of the tribe of Levi.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“As for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their fathers’ houses.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' households;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As for the Merarites, you are to register them by their clans and their ancestral houses.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"For the descendants of Merari, number them according to their tribes and ancestral houses

NET Bible (©2006)
"As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Register the Merarites by families and households.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

American King James Version
As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

American Standard Version
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers houses;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the families and houses of their fathers,

Darby Bible Translation
The sons of Merari: after their families, according to their fathers' houses shalt thou number them;

English Revised Version
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;

Webster's Bible Translation
As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

World English Bible
"As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers' houses;

Young's Literal Translation
'The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:21-33 We have here the charge of the other two families of the Levites, which, though not so honourable as the first, yet was necessary, and to be done regularly. All the things were delivered them by name. It intimates the care God takes of his church and every member of it. The death of the saints is represented as the taking down of the tabernacle, 2Co 5:1, and the putting it off, 2Pe 1:14. All shall be raised up in the great day, when these vile bodies shall be made like the glorious body of Jesus Christ, and so shall be for ever with the Lord.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As for the sons of Merari,.... The third and youngest son of Levi:

thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; which is the form of expression used of them all; See Gill on Numbers 4:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

29-33. As for the sons of Merari—They carried the coarser and heavier appurtenances, which, however, were so important and necessary, that an inventory was kept of them—not only on account of their number and variety, but of their comparative commonness and smallness, which might have led to their being lost or missing through carelessness, inadvertency, or neglect. It was a useful lesson, showing that God disregards nothing pertaining to His service, and that even in the least and most trivial matters, He requires the duty of faithful obedience.

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Duties of the Merarites
29As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; 30From thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them, every one that enters into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. 31And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, …

Numbers 4:28 This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
Numbers 4:30 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.