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1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, say­ing, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Ko­hath from among the sons of Levi, af­ter their fam­i­lies, by the house of their fa­thers, 3 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even un­til fifty years old, all that en­ter into the host, to do the work in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion. 4 This shall be the ser­vice of the sons of Ko­hath in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp set­teth for­ward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the cov­er­ing vail, and cov­er the ark of tes­ti­mo­ny with it: 6 And shall put there­on the cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth whol­ly of blue, and shall put in the staves there­of. 7 And upon the table of shew­bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put there­on the dish­es, and the spoons, and the bowls, and cov­ers to cov­er with­al: and the con­tin­u­al bread shall be there­on: 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scar­let, and cov­er the same with a cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and shall put in the staves there­of. 9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cov­er the can­dle­stick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdish­es, and all the oil ves­sels there­of, where­with they min­is­ter unto it: 10 And they shall put it and all the ves­sels there­of with­in a cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar. 11 And upon the gold­en al­tar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cov­er it with a cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and shall put to the staves there­of: 12 And they shall take all the in­stru­ments of min­istry, where­with they min­is­ter in the sanc­tu­ary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cov­er them with a cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and shall put them on a bar: 13 And they shall take away the ash­es from the al­tar, and spread a pur­ple cloth there­on: 14 And they shall put upon it all the ves­sels there­of, where­with they min­is­ter about it, even the censers, the flesh­hooks, and the shov­els, and the ba­sons, all the ves­sels of the al­tar; and they shall spread upon it a cov­er­ing of bad­gers' skins, and put to the staves of it. 15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of cov­er­ing the sanc­tu­ary, and all the ves­sels of the sanc­tu­ary, as the camp is to set for­ward; af­ter that, the sons of Ko­hath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the bur­den of the sons of Ko­hath in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion. 16 And to the of­fice of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet in­cense, and the dai­ly meat of­fer­ing, and the anoint­ing oil, and the over­sight of all the taber­na­cle, and of all that there­in is, in the sanc­tu­ary, and in the ves­sels there­of. 17 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, say­ing, 18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the fam­i­lies of the Ko­hathites from among the Levites: 19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they ap­proach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and ap­point them ev­ery one to his ser­vice and to his bur­den: 20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are cov­ered, lest they die. 21 And the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Ger­shon, through­out the hous­es of their fa­thers, by their fam­i­lies; 23 From thir­ty years old and up­ward un­til fifty years old shalt thou num­ber them; all that en­ter in to per­form the ser­vice, to do the work in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion. 24 This is the ser­vice of the fam­i­lies of the Ger­shon­ites, to serve, and for bur­dens: 25 And they shall bear the cur­tains of the taber­na­cle, and the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, his cov­er­ing, and the cov­er­ing of the bad­gers' skins that is above upon it, and the hang­ing for the door of the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, 26 And the hang­ings of the court, and the hang­ing for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the taber­na­cle and by the al­tar round about, and their cords, and all the in­stru­ments of their ser­vice, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve. 27 At the ap­point­ment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the ser­vice of the sons of the Ger­shon­ites, in all their bur­dens, and in all their ser­vice: and ye shall ap­point unto them in charge all their bur­dens. 28 This is the ser­vice of the fam­i­lies of the sons of Ger­shon in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion: and their charge shall be un­der the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 29 As for the sons of Mer­ari, thou shalt num­ber them af­ter their fam­i­lies, by the house of their fa­thers; 30 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even unto fifty years old shalt thou num­ber them, ev­ery one that en­tereth into the ser­vice, to do the work of the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion. 31 And this is the charge of their bur­den, ac­cord­ing to all their ser­vice in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion; the boards of the taber­na­cle, and the bars there­of, and the pil­lars there­of, and sock­ets there­of, 32 And the pil­lars of the court round about, and their sock­ets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their in­stru­ments, and with all their ser­vice: and by name ye shall reck­on the in­stru­ments of the charge of their bur­den. 33 This is the ser­vice of the fam­i­lies of the sons of Mer­ari, ac­cord­ing to all their ser­vice, in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, un­der the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the con­gre­ga­tion num­bered the sons of the Ko­hathites af­ter their fam­i­lies, and af­ter the house of their fa­thers, 35 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even unto fifty years old, ev­ery one that en­tereth into the ser­vice, for the work in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion: 36 And those that were num­bered of them by their fam­i­lies were two thou­sand sev­en hun­dred and fifty. 37 These were they that were num­bered of the fam­i­lies of the Ko­hathites, all that might do ser­vice in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, which Moses and Aaron did num­ber ac­cord­ing to the com­mand­ment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 38 And those that were num­bered of the sons of Ger­shon, through­out their fam­i­lies, and by the house of their fa­thers, 39 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even unto fifty years old, ev­ery one that en­tereth into the ser­vice, for the work in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, 40 Even those that were num­bered of them, through­out their fam­i­lies, by the house of their fa­thers, were two thou­sand and six hun­dred and thir­ty. 41 These are they that were num­bered of the fam­i­lies of the sons of Ger­shon, of all that might do ser­vice in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, whom Moses and Aaron did num­ber ac­cord­ing to the com­mand­ment of the LORD. 42 And those that were num­bered of the fam­i­lies of the sons of Mer­ari, through­out their fam­i­lies, by the house of their fa­thers, 43 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even unto fifty years old, ev­ery one that en­tereth into the ser­vice, for the work in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, 44 Even those that were num­bered of them af­ter their fam­i­lies, were three thou­sand and two hun­dred. 45 These be those that were num­bered of the fam­i­lies of the sons of Mer­ari, whom Moses and Aaron num­bered ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 46 All those that were num­bered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Is­rael num­bered, af­ter their fam­i­lies, and af­ter the house of their fa­thers, 47 From thir­ty years old and up­ward even unto fifty years old, ev­ery one that came to do the ser­vice of the min­istry, and the ser­vice of the bur­den in the taber­na­cle of the con­gre­ga­tion, 48 Even those that were num­bered of them, were eight thou­sand and five hun­dred and fourscore. 49 Ac­cord­ing to the com­mand­ment of the LORD they were num­bered by the hand of Moses, ev­ery one ac­cord­ing to his ser­vice, and ac­cord­ing to his bur­den: thus were they num­bered of him, as the LORD com­mand­ed Moses.