20. but the Kohathites shall not go in to look upon the sacred objects even for an instant, or they will die.
21. The Lord said to Moses:
22. Take a census of the Gershonites also, by ancestral houses and clans,
23. enrolling all between thirty and fifty years of age who will join the personnel to do the work in the tent of meeting.
24. This is the task of the clans of the Gershonites, what they must do and what they must carry:
25. they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting with its covering and the outer wrapping of yellow-orange skin, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting,