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.