Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Numbers 1
⁴⁴ These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father’s house.
⁴⁵ So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel--
⁴⁶ all who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
⁴⁷ But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe;
⁴⁸ for the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying:
⁴⁹ "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;
⁵⁰ but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.
⁵¹ And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
⁵² The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own standard, according to their armies;
⁵³ but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony."
⁵⁴ Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they did.