16The oversight of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, includes the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, the anointing oil, the oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and utensils.
17The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
18Do not let the tribe of the Kohathite clans be cut off from the Levites.
19Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy things. Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.
20But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.
21The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,