The Lord said to Moses,
If you don’t do this, the Kohathite men might go in and look at the holy things. If they look at these things, even for a moment, they must die.”
“Count all the people of the Gershon family. List them by family and family group.
Then the Holy Tent was taken down. And the men from the Gershon and the Merari families carried the Holy Tent. So the people from these families were next in line.
Each man was counted just as the Lord commanded Moses. Each man was given his own work and told what he must carry just as the Lord had said.
