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carrying beam. Also they shall take away the them by their families and by their fathers’
ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth house. From thirty years old and above, even
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over it. They shall put on it all its implements to fifty years old, you shall number them,
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with which they minister there—the firepans, everyone who enters the service to do the
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the forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the work of the tabernacle of meeting. And this is
utensils of the altar—and they shall spread on what they must carry as all their service for
it a covering of badger skins, and insert its the tabernacle of meeting: the boards of the
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poles. And when Aaron and his sons have fin- tabernacle, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
ished covering the sanctuary and all the fur- 32 and the pillars around the court with their
nishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is sockets, pegs, and cords, with all their fur-
set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come nishings and all their service; and you shall as-
to carry them; but they shall not touch any sign to each man by name the items he must
holy thing, lest they die. carry. This is the service of the families of
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“These are the things in the tabernacle of the sons of Merari, as all their service for the
meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry. tabernacle of meeting, under the authority of
16 “The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”
Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, the 34 And Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the
sweet incense, the daily grain offering, the congregation numbered the sons of the
anointing oil, the oversight of all the taberna- Kohathites by their families and by their
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cle, of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its fathers’ house, from thirty years old and
furnishings.” above, even to fifty years old, everyone who
17 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, entered the service for work in the tabernacle
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saying: “Do not cut off the tribe of the fami- of meeting; and those who were numbered
lies of the Kohathites from among the Levites; by their families were two thousand seven
19 but do this in regard to them, that they may hundred and fifty. These were the ones who
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live and not die when they approach the most were numbered of the families of the Kohath-
holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and ites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of
appoint each of them to his service and his meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
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task. But they shall not go in to watch while according to the commandment of the LORD
the holy things are being covered, lest they by the hand of Moses.
die.” 38 And those who were numbered of the sons
21 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: of Gershon, by their families and by their
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22 “Also take a census of the sons of Gershon, fathers’ house, from thirty years old and
by their fathers’ house, by their families. above, even to fifty years old, everyone who
23 From thirty years old and above, even to fifty entered the service for work in the tabernacle
years old, you shall number them, all who of meeting— those who were numbered by
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enter to perform the service, to do the work in their families, by their fathers’ house, were
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the tabernacle of meeting. This is the service two thousand six hundred and thirty. These
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of the families of the Gershonites, in serving are the ones who were numbered of the fami-
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and carrying: They shall carry the curtains lies of the sons of Gershon, of all who might
of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meet- serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom
ing with its covering, the covering of badger Moses and Aaron numbered according to the
skins that is on it, the screen for the door of commandment of the LORD.
the tabernacle of meeting, the screen for the 42 Those of the families of the sons of Merari
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door of the gate of the court, the hangings of who were numbered, by their families, by
the court which are around the tabernacle and their fathers’ house, from thirty years old
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altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for and above, even to fifty years old, everyone
their service and all that is made for these who entered the service for work in the taber-
things: so shall they serve. nacle of meeting— those who were num-
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27 “Aaron and his sons shall assign all the bered by their families were three thousand
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service of the sons of the Gershonites, all their two hundred. These are the ones who were
tasks and all their service. And you shall ap- numbered of the families of the sons of
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point to them all their tasks as their duty. This Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered
is the service of the families of the sons of according to the word of the LORD by the hand
Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting. And of Moses.
their duties shall be under the authority of 46 All who were numbered of the Levites,
Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel
29 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall number numbered, by their families and by their
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