Numbers 1:47-54
Legacy Standard Bible
Levites Not Numbered in the Census
47 (A)The Levites, however, were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe. 48 Yahweh had spoken to Moses, saying, 49 “Only the tribe of Levi (B)you shall not number, nor shall you take their [a]census among the sons of Israel. 50 But you shall (C)appoint the Levites over the [b]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 attend to it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle. 51 (D)So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But (E)the [c]layman who comes near shall be put to death. 52 (F)And the sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies. 53 (G)But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony so that there will be (H)no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. (I)So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.” 54 Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all which Yahweh had commanded Moses, so they did.
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- Numbers 1:49 Lit sum
- Numbers 1:50 Lit dwelling place, so in ch
- Numbers 1:51 Lit stranger
Numbers 1:47-54
Lexham English Bible
47 The Levites from their ancestors’[a] tribe were not mustered[b] in their midst.
48 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 49 “You will not muster[c] the tribe of Levi, and you will not take a census of[d] them in the midst of the Israelites.[e] 50 You will appoint[f] them over the tabernacle of the testimony,[g] over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle. 51 And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will take it down,[h] and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger[i] that approaches it will be put to death. 52 The Israelites[j] will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their[k] own banner according to their divisions. 53 But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony,[l] and there will not be wrath on the community of the Israelites;[m] and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony.”[n] 54 And the Israelites[o] did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses.
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- Numbers 1:47 Or “fathers’”
- Numbers 1:47 Or “counted,” or “summoned,” or “enrolled”
- Numbers 1:49 Or “count,” or “summon,” or “enroll”
- Numbers 1:49 Literally “Lift up the head of”
- Numbers 1:49 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 1:50 Or “count,” or “summon,” or “enroll”
- Numbers 1:50 Other modern translations read “tabernacle of the covenant”
- Numbers 1:51 Literally “lower it”
- Numbers 1:51 Or “outsider”
- Numbers 1:52 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 1:52 Hebrew “his” or “its”
- Numbers 1:53 Other modern translations read “tabernacle of the covenant”
- Numbers 1:53 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Numbers 1:53 Other modern translations read “tabernacle of the covenant”
- Numbers 1:54 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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