The Lord said to Moses,
Then the tent ⌞of meeting⌟ was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, broke camp.
But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”
“Also take a census of the Gershonites. List them by households and families.
At the Lord’s command through Moses each man was registered and told what to do and what to carry. So they were registered as the Lord commanded Moses.