By tale – literally, "by number." The vessels for service taken out of the treasury were counted so that the same number would be returned t…

The care of the sacred vessels of gold and silver. These were counted when brought out of the storerooms, and when replaced, to make sure that none…

And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels,
that they should bring them in and out by…

This chapter expresses that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, when they returned from captivity, with whom to unit…