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,