1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
2. Take a census among the Levites of the Kohathites, by clans and ancestral houses,
3. all between thirty and fifty years of age, who will join the personnel for doing tasks in the tent of meeting.
4. This is the task of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting: the most sacred objects.
5. In breaking camp, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the covenant with it.
6. Over these they shall put a cover of yellow-orange skin, and on top of this spread an all-violet cloth and put the poles in place.
7. On the table of the Presence they shall spread a violet cloth and put on it the plates and cups, as well as the bowls and pitchers for libations; the established bread offering shall remain on the table.