^50 (A)but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it ^(B)and camp around the tabernacle.

^53 (A)but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no ^(B)wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall ^(C)keep^[a] charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

²⁴ “This is what pertains to the Levites: ^(A)From twenty-five years old and above one may enter to perform service in the work of the tabernacle of meeting;

The Cloud and the Fire^(A)

¹⁵ Now ^(B)on the day that the tabernacle was raised up, the cloud ^(C)covered the tabernacle, the tent of the Testimony; ^(D)from evening until morning it was above the tabernacle like the appearance of fire.

Departure from Sinai

¹¹ Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud ^(A)was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.

⁷ And Moses placed the rods before the Lord in ^(A)the tabernacle of witness.

³² and that they should ^(A)attend to the ^(B)needs of the tabernacle of meeting, the needs of the holy place, and the ^(C)needs of the sons of Aaron their brethren in the work of the house of the Lord.

^6 (A)So the king called Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of ^(B)Moses the servant of the Lord and of the assembly of Israel, for the ^(C)tabernacle of witness?”

God’s True Tabernacle

⁴⁴ “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He appointed, instructing Moses ^(A)to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

⁵ After these things I looked, and ^[a]behold, ^(A)the ^[b]temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.