5 When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down See Ex. 26:31the veil of the screen and cover Ex. 25:10,16the ark of the testimony with it. 6 Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; compare Exodus 25:5 and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its Ex. 25:13poles. 15 And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that ch. 7:9;10:21;Deut. 31:9the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, 2 Sam. 6:6,7;1 Chr. 13:9,10but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
20 [Ex. 19:21;1 Sam. 6:19]but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die."