1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2. “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,
3. from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4. This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things.
5. When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.
6. Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.