Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred.
Those numbered after their families were 3,200 men, and they were the Merarite Levites counted for service. The counting was by families, giving the strength of that division of Levi appointed to labor in connection with the sanctuary. This belongs to the account of the Levites' assigned work for the tabernacle, which included taking it down and carrying its sacred furnishings when Israel journeyed.
Those numbered after their families were 3,200 men, and they were the Merarite Levites counted for service. The counting was by families, giving the strength of that division of Levi appointed to labor in connection with the sanctuary. This belongs to the account of the Levites' assigned work for the tabernacle, which included taking it down and carrying its sacred furnishings when Israel journeyed.