47. The Levites, however, were not counted by the tribe of their ancestors,
48. for Adonai told Moses saying,
49. “Definitely you are not to number the tribe of Levi, nor take the sum of them among Bnei-Yisrael.
50. Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its implements and all pertaining to it. They are to carry the Tabernacle and all its utensils, tend to it and camp around it.
51. Whenever the Tabernacle sets out, the Levites are to dismantle it, and whenever the Tabernacle is pitched, the Levites are to set it up. But the commoner who comes near to it must be put to death.