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Numbers 1:53

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But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Numbers 1:53 in other translations

But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the 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 the testimony.

Numbers 1:53 · American Standard Version

Numbers 1:53 in context

  1. 51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
  2. 52The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
  3. 53But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
  4. 54Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.