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"Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificialbowls and the jars for the drinkoffering, and the continualbread shall be on it.
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"Then they shall take a bluecloth and cover the lampstand for the light, along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oilvessels, by which they serve it;
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and they shall takeall the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a bluecloth and cover them with a covering of porpoiseskin, and put them on the carryingbars.
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"They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoiseskinover it and insert its poles.
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"When Aaron and his sons have finishedcovering the holy objects and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them, so that they will not touch the holy objects and die. These are the things in the tent of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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"The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrantincense and the continual grain offering and the anointingoil -the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings."
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"But dothis to them that they may live and not die when they approach the mostholy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assigneach of them to his work and to his load;
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they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of porpoiseskin that is on top of it, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,
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and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the courtwhich is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.
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"All the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their loads and in all their work, shall be performed at the command of Aaron and his sons; and you shall assign to them as a dutyall their loads.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
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"Now this is the duty of their loads, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its sockets,
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and the pillarsaround the court and their sockets and their pegs and their cords, with all their equipment and with all their service; and you shall assign each man by name the items he is to carry.
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"This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
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These are the numbered men of the Kohathitefamilies, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whomMoses and Aaronnumberedaccording to the commandment of the LORDthroughMoses.
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These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whomMoses and Aaronnumberedaccording to the commandment of the LORD.
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from thirtyyears and upward even to fiftyyearsold, everyone who could enter to do the work of service and the work of carrying in the tent of meeting.
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According to the commandment of the LORDthroughMoses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as the LORD had commandedMoses.