Numbers 1:52

The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

Berean Standard Bible

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

51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

53But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

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Cross References

Numbers 2:2“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.

Numbers 10:1Then 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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