Then the Lord spoke to Moses:
Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.
But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”
“Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.
According to the word of the Lord they were numbered, by the authority of Moses, each according to his service and according to what he was to carry. Thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
