Numbers 1:48-50

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴⁸ For the Lord had said to Moses,

⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number in the census of the Israelites.

⁵⁰ But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its vessels and furnishings and all things that belong to it. They shall carry the tabernacle [when journeying] and all its furnishings, and they shall minister to it and encamp around it.