17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
18 “Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.
19 Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.
20 The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die.”
21 The Lord spoke to Moses:
22 “Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and their clans.
23 Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.