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Numbers 1:49
Numbers 1:49 is verse 49 of Numbers chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
King James Version
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
World English Bible
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;
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Numbers 1:47–51 · Berean Standard Bible
47 The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.
48 For the LORD had said to Moses:
49 “Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.
50 Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.
51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 2:33But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 26:62The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.