18 Do not let the group of Kohathite clans perish from among the Levites.
19 That they may live and not die when they approach the most sacred objects, this is what you shall do for them: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign to each of them his task and what he must carry;
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: