Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Numbers 1:49
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“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
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Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
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“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
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Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
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Numbers 1
47 The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.
48 For the LORD had said to Moses:
49 “Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
50 Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.
51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
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