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Rh tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

And the spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death. And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man with his own camp, and every man with his own standard, according to their hosts. But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.' Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that the commanded Moses, so did they.

And the spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 'The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting. Now those that pitch on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, and his host, and those that were numbered of them, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred; and those that pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar; the prince of the children of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty and four thousand and four hundred; and the tribe of Zebulun; the prince of the children of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon, and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, fifty and seven thousand and four hundred; all that were numbered of the camp of Judah being a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts; they shall set forth first.

On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, forty and six thousand and five hundred; and those that pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Simeon; the prince of the children of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, and his host, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and nine thousand and three hundred; and the tribe of Gad; the prince of the children of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel, and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty; all that were numbered of the camp of Reuben being a hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts; and they shall set forth second.

Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set forward in the midst of the camps;