1. Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
2. “Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from the midst of the descendants of Levi, according to their clans and their families,
3. from thirty years old and above, up to fifty years old, everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly.
4. This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary:
5. When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony.