46. All who were numbered were 603,550.
47. But the Levites by their fathers' tribe were not numbered with them.
48. For the Lord had said to Moses,
49. Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number in the census of the Israelites.
50. But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its vessels and furnishings and all things that belong to it. They shall carry the tabernacle [when journeying] and all its furnishings, and they shall minister to it and encamp around it.