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Levites: The Merarites

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Numbers 3:20, 33–37 And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families. / From Merari came the clans of the Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans. / as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.
Numbers 4:31–33 This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases, / and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry. / This is the service of the Merarite clans according to all their work at the Tent of Meeting, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
Numbers 7:8 and he gave the Merarites four carts and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 10:17 Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
1 Chronicles 6:19, 29, 30 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites listed according to their fathers: / The descendants of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, / Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.
1 Chronicles 23:21–23 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. / Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them. / The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth—three in all.