COATITAS
Coat’s descendants. The Kohathites were in charge of transporting the most holy articles of the Tabernacle: the ark, the table of showbread, the golden altar, etc. but they were not allowed to touch any of it, or even look at it.
At the first census, the male descendants of Kohath between the ages of thirty and fifty were 2,750. Their descendants included important families, including the priestly family.