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`And Aaron hath finished -- his sons also -- covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear [it], and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
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`And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, [is] the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that [is] in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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`Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;
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but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: -- Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden,
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and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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`Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families;
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from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting.
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`This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve -- and for burden,
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and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger [skin] which [is] on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,