Numbers 1:50

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Summary

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

Thou shalt

Shall encamp

Numbers 2:17

Numbers 3:23

Numbers 10:21

General references

Bible References

Thou shalt

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.

And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.

Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.

Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

Shall encamp

Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.

The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.

Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.

General references

So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

And after these things I saw, and the house of the Tent of witness in heaven was open: