Numbers 4:5-15

New Catholic Bible

⁵ When the camp is being moved, Aaron and his sons will take down the veil and cover the Ark of Testimony with it. ⁶ They are then to put on the sheep skins, cover it with a blue cloth, and put the poles in place.^{[a] 7} They will spread a blue cloth over the table for the shewbread. On it they will place the dishes and spoons and bowls and jars for the drink offerings. The bread of offering will remain on it. ⁸ Over these they will spread a scarlet cloth and cover it with sheep skins. You will then put the poles in it. ⁹ They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand used for the light, its lamps, its tongs, its snuffers, and all of its oil dishes, all the things used in its ministry. ¹⁰ They will put it and all of its vessels within a hide of sheep skin and they will put it upon a litter. ¹¹ They will spread a blue cloth upon the golden altar and cover it with a covering of sheep skins and put its poles in it.^{[b] 12} Then they are to take all the implements with which they minister in the sanctuary, and they are to cover them with a blue cloth and with a covering of sheep skin and put them on a litter. ¹³ They are to empty all the ashes^[c] out from the altar and spread a purple cloth on it. ¹⁴ They are to put all the utensils with which they minister upon it, the censers, the forks, the shovels, and the basins. They are to take all of the utensils with which they minister and spread a sheep skin upon them. They will also put in its poles.

¹⁵ “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all of the vessels of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to set out, the Kohathites will come forward to carry it, but they will not touch anything that is holy, lest they die. These things in the tent of meeting are the responsibility of the Kohathites.