Quotes about Israelites

Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

Next will be the tribe of Naphtali. The leader of the Naphtalites is Ahira son of Enan,

The total number of men in the camp of Dan is 157,600; they shall set out last, under their standards.”

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.

But the Levites were not counted among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and his family.

They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the Israelites.

The clans of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

and the leader of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.