Numbers 10:21
Then the Kohathites moved out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before they arrived.
Numbers 10:17
Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, moved out.
Numbers 4:4-16
This is the work and responsibility of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle): the most holy things.
Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave nothing, because they were assigned the care of the holy things which they carried on their shoulders [when the tabernacle was moved].
Numbers 1:51
When the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to [be set up for] camp, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman (non-Levite) who approaches the tabernacle shall be put to death.
Numbers 2:17
“Then the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle) shall move out with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the [other] camps; just as they camp so shall they move out, every man in his place by their standards.
Numbers 3:27-32
Of Kohath were the families of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.
Numbers 4:20
But the Kohathites shall not go in to see the holy things, even for an instant, or they will die.”
1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, “No one is to carry the ark of God except the Levites; for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister to Him forever.”
1 Chronicles 15:12-15
and he said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves, both you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.