Bible Verses About Levites: Exempt from enrollment for military duty

But the Leuites, after the tribes of their fathers were not nombred among them.

For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, and said,

Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel:

But thou shalt appoynt the Leuites ouer the Tabernacle of the Testimonie, and ouer all the instruments thereof, and ouer all things that belong to it: they shall beare the Tabernacle, and all the instruments thereof, and shall minister in it, and shall dwell round about the Tabernacle.

And when the Tabernacle goeth forth, the Leuites shall take it downe: and when the Tabernacle is to be pitched, ye Leuites shall set it vp: for the stranger that commeth neere, shalbe slaine.

Also the children of Israel shall pitch their tentes, euery man in his campe, and euery man vnder his standerd throughout their armies.

But the Leuites shall pitch rounde about the Tabernacle of the Testimonie, least vengeance come vpon the Congregation of the children of Israel, and the Leuites shall take the charge of the Tabernacle of the Testimonie.

So the children of Israel did according to all that ye Lord had comanded Moses: so did they.