Numbers 4:4-20

DouayRheims^{(i) 4} This is the service of the sons of Caath: ⁵ When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it, ⁶ And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. ⁷ They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: ⁸ And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. ⁹ They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps: ¹⁰ And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars. ¹¹ And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars. ¹² All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars. ¹³ They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth, ¹⁴ And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, pothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar together with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars. ¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have wrapped up the sanctuary and the vessels thereof at the removing of the camp, then shall the sons of Caath enter in to carry the things wrapped up: and they shall not touch the vessels of the sanctuary, lest they die. These are the burdens of the sons of Caath: in the tabernacle of the covenant: ¹⁶ And over them shall be Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, to whose charge pertaineth the oil to dress the lamps, and the sweet incense, and the sacrifice, that is always offered, and the oil of unction, and whatsoever pertaineth to the service of the tabernacle, and of all the vessels that are in the sanctuary. ¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ¹⁸ Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites: ¹⁹ But do this to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man is to carry. ²⁰ Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.