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The service of the Kohathites relating to the tent of meeting concerns the most holy things.

When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the screening curtain, and cover the ark of the covenant[a] with it; then they shall put on it a covering of fine leather,[b] and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put its poles in place.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 4:5 Or treaty, or testimony; Heb eduth
  2. Numbers 4:6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

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