Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.
but they shall not go in to see the holy objects even for a moment, or they will die.”
“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ households, by their families;
According to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
