Numbers 4:1-8 ▼

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

2 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families (clans), by their fathers’ households,

3 from thirty years old and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).

4 This is the work and responsibility of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle): the most holy things.

5 “When the camp prepares to move out, Aaron and his sons shall come into the sanctuary and take down the veil (curtain) screening off the Holy of Holies, and cover the ark of the testimony with it;

6 and they shall put on it a covering of porpoise skin (fine leather), and shall spread over that a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert the carrying poles of the ark.

7 Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes [for incense], the sacrificial bowls, the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread [of the Presence] shall be on it.

8 They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover that with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its carrying poles.