New Revised Standard Version
Then the Kohathites, who carried the holy things, set out; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

Contemporary English Version
Next were the Kohathites, carrying the objects for the sacred tent, which was to be set up before they arrived at the new camp.

New American Bible
The Kohathites, who carried the sacred objects, then set out. Before their arrival the tabernacle would be erected.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.

Then the Caathites also marched carrying the sanctuary. So long was the tabernacle carried, till they came to the place of setting it up.

the Kohathites

Numbers 2:17 And the tabernacle of the testimony shall be carried by the officers of the Levites and their troops. As it shall be set up, so shall it be taken down. Every one shall march according to their places, and ranks.

Numbers 3:27-32 Of the kindred of Caath come the families of the Amramites and Jesaarites and Hebronites and Ozielites. These are the families of the Caathites reckoned up by their names: . . .

Numbers 4:4-16 This is the service of the sons of Caath: . . .

Numbers 7:9 But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

1 Chronicles 16:2,12-15 And when David had made an end of offering holocausts, and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord. . . .

the other did.

Numbers 10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gerson and Merari set forward, bearing it.

Numbers 1:51 When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.