Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things.( The tabernacle would be prepared for their arrival.)

哥辖人抬着圣物先往前行。他们未到以前，抬帐幕的已经把帐幕支好。

哥辖人抬着圣物往前行。他们未到以前，帐幕已经立好了。

哥辖人抬着圣物往前行。他们未到以前，帐幕已经立好了。

随后出发的是哥辖人，他们抬着圣物前行。在他们到达之前，圣幕应已支好。

哥辖人抬着圣物起行；他们到达之前，人已经把帐幕竖立起来。

哥轄人擡着聖物先往前行。他們未到以前，擡帳幕的已經把帳幕支好。

哥轄人抬着聖物往前行。他們未到以前，帳幕已經立好了。

哥轄人抬着聖物往前行。他們未到以前，帳幕已經立好了。

隨後出發的是哥轄人，他們抬著聖物前行。在他們到達之前，聖幕應已支好。

哥轄人抬著聖物起行；他們到達之前，人已經把帳幕豎立起來。

哥轄人抬着聖物往前行；人把帳幕立好、等他們來到。

哥轄子孫、負聖所什物啟行、先行之人、建幕以待其至、

哥轄子孫、負聖室之什物遄征、先行之利未人建置會幕、以待後至者。

後舁聖所器具者哥轄子孫乃啟行、彼未至之先、運幕者已建立其幕、○

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things. The tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

The men of Kohath started out. They carried the holy things. The holy tent had to be set up before they arrived.

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

Next came the Kohathite division of the Levites, carrying the sacred objects from the Tabernacle. Before they arrived at the next camp, the Tabernacle would already be set up at its new location.

The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the tabernacle against their coming.

The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and[ the other] did set up the tabernacle against they came.

And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; the tabernacle was to be set up before they arrived.

The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.

“ This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of meeting, relating to the most holy things:When the camp prepares to journey, Aaron and his sons shall come, and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.Then they shall put on it a covering of badger skins, and spread over that a cloth entirely of blue; and they shall insert its poles.“ On the table of showbread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring; and the showbread shall be on it.They shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.And they shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand of the light, with its lamps, its wick-trimmers, its trays, and all its oil vessels, with which they service it.Then they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of badger skins, and put it on a carrying beam.“ Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.Then they shall take all the utensils of service with which they minister in the sanctuary, put them in a blue cloth, cover them with a covering of badger skins, and put them on a carrying beam.Also they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.They shall put on it all its implements with which they minister there— the firepans, the forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar— and they shall spread on it a covering of badger skins, and insert its poles.And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is set to go, then the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die.“ These are the things in the tabernacle of meeting which the sons of Kohath are to carry.“ The appointed duty of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light, the sweet incense, the daily grain offering, the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because theirs was the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders.

He said to them,“ You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.For because you did not do it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not consult Him about the proper order.”So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

But they shall not go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, lest they die.”

Then David said,“ No one may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister before Him forever.”

From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites.According to the number of all the males, from a month old and above, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping charge of the sanctuary.The families of the children of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.And the leader of the fathers’ house of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.Their duty included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, the screen, and all the work relating to them.And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the leaders of the Levites, with oversight of those who kept charge of the sanctuary.

“ And the tabernacle of meeting shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps; as they camp, so they shall move out, everyone in his place, by their standards.

And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.