Numbers [In the desert] 1:46-53

⁴⁶even all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

⁴⁷But the Levites Descendants of United with after the tribe of their fathers was not counted among them.

⁴⁸For Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

⁴⁹“Only the tribe of Levi United with you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel God prevails;

⁵⁰but appoint the Levites Descendants of United with over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

⁵¹When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites Descendants of United with shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites Descendants of United with shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

⁵²The children of Israel God prevails shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

⁵³But the Levites Descendants of United with shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel God prevails: and the Levites Descendants of United with shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”