The LORD told Moses and Aaron
The people of Israel did everything the LORD had commanded.
Marching behind Reuben will be the Levites, arranged in groups, just as they are camped. They will carry the sacred tent and their own banners.
how the Israelites should arrange their camp: Each tribe must set up camp under its own banner and under the flags of its ancestral families. These camps will be arranged around the sacred tent, but not close to it.
Then the twelve tribal leaders of Israel, the same men who had been in charge of counting the people, came to the tent
