2. Take a census of the Kohathite division among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
3. From thirty years old and up to fifty years old, all who can enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
4. This shall be the responsibility of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting: the most holy things.
5. When the camp prepares to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall take down the veil [screening the Holy of Holies] and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
6. And shall put on it the covering of dolphin or porpoise skin, and shall spread over that a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in place the poles of the ark.
7. And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, the flagons for the drink offering, and also the continual showbread.