Numbers 1:47

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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 ^asix hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

47 But ^athe Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers’ tribe;

48 for the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying:

49 ^a“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;

50 ^abut 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 ^band camp around the tabernacle.

51 ^aAnd 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 ^bup. ^cThe outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

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Numbers 1:47-54

When a census of the tribe of Levi takes place. Numbers 3:15; Numbers 26:62, "all" the males are counted from a month old and upward, and not, as in the other tribes, those only who were of age for service in the field.

Numbers 1:48

had spoken - Render spake. The formal appointment is only now made, in reward for their zeal Exodus 32:26-29, though reference to their future office appears previously in Leviticus 25:32 ff, and they had already acted as assistants to the priests (compare Exodus 38:21).

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