44. These were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his father's house.
45. So all those numbered of the Israelites, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, able to go to war in Israel,
46. All who were numbered were 603,550.
47. But the Levites by their fathers' tribe were not numbered with them.
48. For the Lord had said to Moses,
49. Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number in the census of the Israelites.
50. But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its vessels and furnishings and all things that belong to it. They shall carry the tabernacle [when journeying] and all its furnishings, and they shall minister to it and encamp around it.
51. When the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the excluded [any not of the tribe of Levi] who approach the tabernacle shall be put to death.