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Numbers 1:53 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.” "
Numbers 1:53
Verse in Context
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51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
54 Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.
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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
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