To the rest of [the Levites], the sons of Merari, [were given], out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
A most significant fact that appears in this chapter is that all of the services of the tabernacle are presented as reaching all the way back to the Exodus; and the Chronicler tells us that their ceremonies were observed, "According to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded."  (1 Chronicles 6:49).  Elmslie, speaking of this verse, declared it to be "emphatically stated."[2]  The sacred author of Chronicles had evidently never heard of that fairy tale regarding that "D" Document allegedly discovered by Hilkiah in the days of Josiah.  What is stated here could never have been written if that `discovery' had been anything other than the Pentateuch (every single word of it).