Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
46 yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
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The total number was 603,550.
47 And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,
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The ancestral tribe of the Levites, however, was not counted along with the others.
48 seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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The LORD had said to Moses:
49 `Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;
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“You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites.
50 and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.
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Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant law—over all its furnishings and everything belonging to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they are to take care of it and encamp around it.
51 `And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'
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Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.
52 And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;
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The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.
53 and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.
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The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”
54 And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.
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The Israelites did all this just as the LORD commanded Moses.
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