Then David said, It is unleaveful, that the ark of God be borne about of any others, no but of the deacons [or Levites], which the Lord chose to bear it, and for to minister to him into without end.
These were the sons of Levi in their kindreds and meines, and they were princes by whiles, and the number of all the heads, that did the travail of the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years and above.
When men shall go forth, or be removed, the deacons shall take down the tabernacle; when the tents shall be set, they shall set it up. Whoever of strangers nigheth, he shall be slain.
Soothly the tabernacle of witnessing shall be raised up by the offices of deacons [or Levites], and by their companies; as it shall be raised up by them, so it shall be taken down by them; all they shall go forth by their places and orders.