53 The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle(A) of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall(B) on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.(C)

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53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

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53 (A)but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no (B)wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall (C)keep[a] charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:53 have in their care

19 From among all the Israelites, I have given the Levites as gifts to Aaron and his sons(A) to do the work at the tent of meeting on behalf of the Israelites(B) and to make atonement for them(C) so that no plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary.”

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19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

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19 And (A)I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the work for the children of Israel in the tabernacle of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, (B)that there be no plague among the children of Israel when the children of Israel come near the sanctuary.”

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