1. And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:
2. Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3. from thirty years old and older, even to fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4. This will be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the holiest things.
5. And when the camp sets out, Aaron will come, and his sons, and they will take down the covering curtain, and cover the ark of the testimony with it,
6. and will put on it the covering of porpoise skins, and will spread over it a cloth completely of blue, and will put in its poles.
7. Upon the table of showbread they will spread a cloth of blue, and put the dishes on it, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover it, and the showbread will be on it.
8. And they will spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skins, and will put in its poles.
9. They will take a cloth of blue, and cover the lampstand of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.
10. And they will put it and all its vessels within a covering of porpoise skins and will put it on a carrying pole.