The Lord told Moses
Then the Tent would be taken down, and the clans of Gershon and Merari, who carried it, would start out.
But if the Kohathites enter the Tent and see the priests preparing the sacred objects for moving, they will die.”
to take a census of the Levite clan of Gershon by subclans and families,
Each man was registered as the Lord had commanded Moses; and at the command of the Lord given through Moses, each man was assigned responsibility for his task of serving or carrying.
