46. Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.
47. But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.
48. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
49. Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:
50. But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51. When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.