Numbers 1:49-53

Numbers 1:49-53

[49] Only thou shalt not number  the tribe  neither take  the sum  of them among  the children  of Israel:  [50] But thou shalt appoint  the Levites  over the tabernacle  of testimony,  and over all the vessels  thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear  the tabernacle,  and all the vessels  thereof; and they shall minister  unto it, and shall encamp  round about  the tabernacle.  [51] And when the tabernacle  setteth forward,  the Levites  shall take it down:  and when the tabernacle  is to be pitched,  the Levites  shall set it up:  and the stranger  shall be put to death.  [52] And the children  of Israel  shall pitch their tents,  every man  by his own camp,  and every man  by his own standard,  throughout their hosts.  [53] But the Levites  shall pitch  round about  the tabernacle  of testimony,  that there be no wrath  upon the congregation  of the children  of Israel:  and the Levites  shall keep  the charge  of the tabernacle  of testimony.