Numbers 1:52

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

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In The King James Version

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

In Context

51And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

53But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

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Cross References

Numbers 2:2The children of Israel are to put up their tents in the order of their families, by the flags of their fathers' houses, facing the Tent of meeting on every side.

Numbers 10:1And the Lord said to Moses,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:48-54

47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the… Read the whole commentary →

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