28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gerʹshon·ites+ in the tent of meeting, and their obligatory service is under the hand of Ithʹa·mar+ the son of Aaron the priest.

4 But the sons of El·e·aʹzar were found to be more numerous in headmen than the sons of Ithʹa·mar. So they distributed them to the sons of El·e·aʹzar, as heads for [their]* paternal houses, sixteen, and to the sons of Ithʹa·mar, [as heads] for their paternal houses, eight.