but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.

“This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, relating to the most holy things:

And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. “These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.

but do this in regard to them, that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each of them to his service and his task.

But they shall not go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, lest they die.”

the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.

Every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.

And every man’s holy things shall be his; whatever any man gives the priest shall be his.’ ”

But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders.

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. (The tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)

Now Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.”

All who are native-born shall do these things in this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the Lord.

This shall be yours of the most holy things reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering and every sin offering and every trespass offering which they render to Me, shall be most holy for you and your sons.

And those redeemed of the devoted things you shall redeem when one month old, according to your valuation, for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

“All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to the Lord, I have given to you and your sons and daughters with you as an ordinance forever; it is a covenant of salt forever before the Lord with you and your descendants with you.”

‘And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.