The Lord said to Moses,
But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”
“Take a census also of the Gershonites by their families and clans.
Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and Merarites, who carried it, set out.
At the Lord’s command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry. Thus they were counted, as the Lord commanded Moses.
