Levites Exempted
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But k the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.
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For the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.
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l But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it m and shall camp around the tabernacle.
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n When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. o And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.
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The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and p each man by his own standard.
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But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no q wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. r And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony."
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Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.
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Cross References
Numbers 2:33
But the Levites were not listed among the peopl...
Numbers 26:57 - 58
This was the list of the Levites according to t...
Numbers 26:62
And those listed were 23,000, every male from a...
Numbers 3:1
These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at...
Numbers 4:1
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying.
1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Cross References
Numbers 3:7 - 8
They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.
Exodus 38:21
These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 4:15 - 33
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.
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Cross References
Numbers 3:23 - 38
The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west.
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Cross References
Numbers 10:17
And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.
Numbers 10:21
Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.
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Cross References
Numbers 3:10
And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and t...
Numbers 3:38
Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on...
Numbers 18:22
So that the people of Israel do not come near t...
1 Samuel 6:19
And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, ...
2 Samuel 6:6 - 7
And when they came to the threshing floor of Na...
1 Chronicles 13:10
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against U...
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Cross References
Numbers 2:2
The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers' houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.
Numbers 2:34
Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his clan, according to his fathers' house.
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Cross References
Numbers 8:19
And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.
Numbers 16:46
And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord ; the plague has begun.
Numbers 18:5
And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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Cross References
Numbers 3:7 - 8
They shall keep guard over him and over the who...
Numbers 3:38
Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on...
Numbers 8:26
They minister to their brothers in the tent of ...
Numbers 9:19
Even when the cloud continued over the tabernac...
Numbers 9:23
At the command of the Lord they camped, and at ...
Numbers 18:3 - 5
They shall keep guard over you and over the who...
Numbers 31:30
And from the people of Israel's half you shall ...
Numbers 31:47
From the people of Israel's half Moses took one...
1 Chronicles 23:32
Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of me...
2 Chronicles 13:11
They offer to the Lord every morning and every ...
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