The Lord said to Moses:
Then, after the tabernacle was dismantled, the Gershonites and Merarites who carried the tabernacle set out.
but the Kohathites shall not go in to look upon the sacred objects even for an instant, or they will die.
Take a census of the Gershonites also, by ancestral houses and clans,
As the Lord directed through Moses, they gave each of them their assignments for service and for transport; just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
