16 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall be responsible for the whole Tent and for the oil for the lamps, the incense, the grain offerings, the anointing oil, and everything else in the Tent that has been consecrated to the Lord.
17 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
18 “Do not let the clan of Kohath
19 be killed by coming near these most sacred objects. To prevent this happening, Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each man his task and tell him what to carry.
20 But if the Kohathites enter the Tent and see the priests preparing the sacred objects for moving, they will die.”
21 The Lord told Moses
22 to take a census of the Levite clan of Gershon by sub-clans and families,