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Numbers 4
And the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron, saying:
Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of
the Levites, by their houses and families.
From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old,
of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle
of the covenant.
This is the service of the sons of Caath:
When the camp is to set forward, Aaron and his sons
shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the
holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth
before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony
in it,
And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins,
and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and
shall put in the bars.
They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in
a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers
and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the
libations: the leaves shall be always on it:
And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which
again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins,
and shall put in the bars.
They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they
shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs
thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which
are necessary for the dressing of the lamps :
And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins
and put in the bars.
And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth
of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet
skins, and put in the bars.
All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary,
they shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread
over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.
They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and
shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,
And shall put it with all the vessels that they use
in the ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks
and forks, pothooks and shovels. They shall cover all
the vessels of the altar together with a covering of
violet skins, and shall put in the bars.
And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary
and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp,
then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things
wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of
the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens
of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant:
And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the
priest, to whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress
the lamps, and the sweet incense, and the sacrifice,
that is always offered, and the oil of unction, and
whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle,
and of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the
Levites:
But do this to them, that they may live, and not die,
by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons
shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work,
and shall divide the burdens that every man is to carry.
Let not others by any curiosity see the things that
are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise
they shall die.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Take the sum of the soils of Gerson also by their houses
and families and kindreds.
From thirty Sears old and upward, unto fifty years old.
Number them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle
of the covenant.
This is the office of the family of the Gersonites :
To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof
of the covenant, the other covering, and the violet
covering over all, and the hanging that hangeth in the
entry of the tabernacle of the covenant,
The curtains of the court, and the veil in the entry
that is before the tabernacle. All things that pertain
to the altar, the cords and the vessels of the ministry,
The sons of Gerson shall carry, by the commandment of
Aaron and his sons: and each man shall know to what
burden he must be assigned.
This is the service of the family of the Gersonites
in the tabernacle of the covenant, and they shall be
under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Thou shalt reckon up the sons of Merari also by the
families and houses of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old,
all that go in to the office of their ministry, and
to the service of the covenant of the testimony.
These are their burdens: They shall carry the boards
of the tabernacle and the bars thereof, the pillars
and their sockets,
The pillars also of the court round about, with their
sockets and pins and cords. They shall receive by account
all the vessels and furniture, and so shall carry them.
This is the office of the family of the Merarites, and
their ministry in the tabernacle of the covenant: and
they shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron
the priest.
So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue
reckoned up the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and
the houses of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old,
all that go in to the ministry of the tabernacle of
the covenant:
And they were found two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
This is the number of the people of Caath that go in
to the tabernacle of the covenant: these did Moses and
Aaron number according to the word of the Lord by the
hand of Moses.
The sons of Gerson also were numbered by the kindreds
and houses of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old,
all that go in to minister in the tabernacle of the
covenant:
And they were found two thousand six hundred and thirty.
This is the people of the Gersonites, whom Moses and
Aaron numbered according to the word of the Lord.
The sons of Merari also were numbered by the kindreds
and houses of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old,
all that go in to fulfil the rites of the tabernacle
of the covenant:
And they were found three thousand two hundred.
This is the number of the sons of Merari, whom Moses
and Aaron reckoned up according to the commandment of
the Lord by the hand of Moses.
All that were reckoned up of the Levites, and whom Moses
and Aaron and the princes of Israel took by name, by
the kindreds and houses of their fathers,
From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years
old, that go into the ministry of the tabernacle, and
to carry the burdens,
Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
Moses reckoned them up according to the word of the
Lord, every one according to their office and burdens,
as the Lord had commanded him.
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