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The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
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Take a census of the Kohathites separate from the other Levites, by their clans and their ancestral houses,
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from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who qualify to do work relating to the tent of meeting.
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The service of the Kohathites relating to the tent of meeting concerns the most holy things.
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When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the covenant with it;
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then they shall put on it a covering of fine leather, and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put its poles in place.
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Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular bread also shall be on it;
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then they shall spread over them a crimson cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall put its poles in place.
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They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its snuffers, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied;
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and they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of fine leather, and put it on the carrying frame.
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Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall put its poles in place;