50. but appoint the LEVITES over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

51. When the tabernacle is to move, the LEVITES shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the LEVITES shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

52. The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

53. But the LEVITES shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the LEVITES shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

"Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the LEVITES in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

23. The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

24. The prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25. The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

26. and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.

27. Of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

28. According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.

29. The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the south side of the tabernacle.

30. The prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

31. Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

32. Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the LEVITES, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

33. Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites. These are the families of Merari.

34. Those who were counted of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.3:34+ 22,000, rounded to 2 significant digits. (The sum of the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites given above is 22,300.)

35. The prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They shall encamp on the north side of the tabernacle.