45. So all the Israelites 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral houses.
46. All those registered numbered 603,550.
47. But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.
48. For the Lord had told Moses:
49. “Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.
50. Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.