Numbers 1:47-50

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.