The Lord spoke to Moses:
The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects as they are covered or they will die.”
“Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral families and their clans.
The tabernacle was then taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting the tabernacle.
At the Lord’s command they were registered under the direction of Moses, each one according to his work and transportation duty, and his assignment was as the Lord commanded Moses.
