Numbers 1:52-54

New Catholic Bible

⁵² “Each of the Israelites will pitch his tent within his own camp, alongside his own standard, each in his own company, ⁵³ but the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony so that no wrath come upon the community of the people of Israel. The Levites will keep guard over the tabernacle of the Testimony.” ⁵⁴ This is what the people of Israel did. They did everything that the Lord had commanded Moses.