Numbers 1:48-50

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁸ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

⁴⁹ Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

⁵⁰ But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.