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Numbers 1:48 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "
Numbers 1:48
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46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
48 For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
50 but appoint the Levites over the 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 take care of it, and shall encamp around it.
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Numbers 1:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,"
Numbers 1:2
"“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,"
Numbers 1:3
"from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions."
Numbers 1:4
"With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house."
Numbers 1:5
"These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur."
Numbers 1:6
"Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai."
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