“but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.