Numbers 1:46-53

⁴⁶were all together six hundred thousand and three thousand men, and five hundred and fifty.

⁴⁷Soothly the deacons in the lineage of their meines were not numbered with them.

⁴⁸And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

⁴⁹Do not thou number the lineage of Levi, neither set thou the sum of them with the sons of Israel;

⁵⁰but thou shalt ordain them upon the tabernacle of witnessing, and upon all the vessels thereof, and upon what-ever thing pertaineth to the cere-monies, either sacrifices. They shall bear the tabernacle, and all the appur-tenances thereof, and they shall be in the service of it, and they shall set their tents by compass of the taber-nacle.

⁵¹When men shall go forth, or be removed, the deacons shall take down the tabernacle; when the tents shall be set, they shall set it up. Whoever of strangers nigheth, he shall be slain.

⁵²Soothly the sons of Israel shall set tents, each man by his companies, and his fellowships, and his host;

⁵³forsooth the deacons shall set their tents by compass of the tabernacle, lest indignation be made on the multitude of the sons of Israel; and they shall wake or watch in the keepings of the tabernacle of witnessing.