1. And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
2. `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers;
3. from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.
4. `This [is] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies:
5. that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;
6. and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves.
7. `And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it,
8. and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves,
9. and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it;
10. and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put [it] on the bar.
11. `And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves;