⁴ This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: ^(A)the most holy things.

¹⁹ but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to ^(A)the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,

^34 (A)It is like a man ^(B)going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants^[a] in charge, ^(C)each with his work, and commands ^(D)the doorkeeper to stay awake.

^30 (A)From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

²⁴ This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:

¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that ^(A)the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, ^(B)but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.

³⁰ with ^(A)Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers' house of the clans of the Kohathites. ³¹ And their guard duty involved ^(B)the ark, ^(C)the table, ^(D)the lampstand, ^(E)the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and ^(F)the screen; all the service connected with these.