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49 “Only the tribe of Levi (A)you shall not number, nor shall you take their [a]census among the sons of Israel. 50 But you shall (B)appoint the Levites over the [b]tabernacle of the testimony and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall attend to it; they shall also camp around the tabernacle. 51 (C)So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But (D)the [c]layman who comes near shall be put to death.

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  1. Numbers 1:49 Lit sum
  2. Numbers 1:50 Lit dwelling place, so in ch
  3. Numbers 1:51 Lit stranger