Numbers 1:46-53

⁴⁶sixe hundrid thousynde and thre thousynde of men, fyue hundred and fifti.

⁴⁷Sotheli the dekenes in the lynage of her meynes weren not noumbrid with hem.

⁴⁸And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, `Nyle thou noumbre the lynage of Leuy,

⁴⁹nether sette thou the summe of hem with the sones of Israel;

⁵⁰but thou schalt ordeyne hem on the tabernacle of witnessing, and on alle the vessels therof, and what euer thing perteyneth to cerymonyes ether sacrifices. Thei schulen bere the tabernacle, and alle purtenaunces therof, and thei schulen be in seruyce, and schulen sette tentis bi the cumpas of the tabernacle.

⁵¹Whanne me schal go, the dekenes schulen do doun the tabernacle; whanne the tentis schulen be sette, thei schulen `reise the tabernacle. Who euer of straungeris neiyeth, he schal be slayn.

⁵²Sotheli the sones of Israel schulen sette tentis, ech man bi cumpenyes, and gaderyngis, and his oost;

⁵³forsothe the dekenes schulen sette tentis bi the cumpas of the tabernacle, lest indignacioun be maad on the multitude of the sones of Israel; and thei schulen wake in the kepyngis of the `tabernacle of witnessyng.