Numbers 4:1-6

Duties of the Kohathites

1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathershouses, 3 afrom thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting. 4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: bthe most holy things. 5When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down cthe veil of the screen and cover dthe ark of the testimony with it. 6Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin
The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; compare Exodus 25:5
and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its fpoles.
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