Holman Christian Standard Bible

Numbers 1:51-54 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

51. Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it must be put to death.

52. “The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner.

53. The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

54. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.