1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
2. “Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,
3. from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4. This is the service of the Kohathites in the tent of meeting, relating to the most holy things.
5. When it is time for the camp to journey, Aaron and his sons must come and take down the screening curtain and cover the ark of the testimony with it.
6. Then they must put over it a covering of fine leather and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue, and then they must insert its poles.
7. “On the table of the presence they must spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.
8. They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
9. “They must take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.
10. Then they must put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on a carrying beam.
11. “They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
12. Then they must take all the utensils of the service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on a carrying beam.