KJV King James Version
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
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Numbers 1:52
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.
WEB World English Bible
The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.
ASV American Standard Version
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;
Surrounding context — Numbers 1
49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that [belong] to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 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 stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of 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 testimony.
54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
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Numbers 2:2Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.Numbers 2:34And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.Numbers 24:2And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding [in his tents] according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.Numbers 10:1-36And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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