Numbers 1:50-52

The Voice

Eternal One (to Moses): ⁵⁰ You will make the Levites responsible for the congregation tent that houses the terms of the covenant, its furnishings, and accoutrements. They will be the ones who carry all of it, maintain it, and camp around it. ⁵¹ When it’s time to move, it will be the Levites who pack up that tent; they are the ones who shall set it back up. If any outsider tries to get involved, he will be killed. ⁵² The rest of the Israelites will camp according to their troops, each extended family under its own banner.