³ The Levites thirty years old or more^(A) were counted,^(B) and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.^(C)

¹⁷ Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, set out.^(A)

²¹ Then the Kohathites^(A) set out, carrying the holy things.^(B) The tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.^(C)