Numbers 1:39-54 ▼

39 those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

40 The descendants of Asher: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

41 those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

42 The descendants of Naphtali: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

43 those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

44 These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral family.

45 So all the Israelites twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral families.

46 All those registered numbered 603,550.

47 But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.

48 For the LORD had told Moses,

49 “Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.

50 Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.

51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it is to be put to death.

52 “The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner.

53 The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

54 The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.