Numbers 1:53 (BSB)

But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

From Numbers 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 1:53

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 1:47-54: Care is here taken to distinguish from the rest of the tribes the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself, Exo 32:26. Note, Singular services shall be recompensed with singular honours. Now, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 1:53: But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony,.... Between the tabernacle and the camps of Israel, to guard the tabernacle and preserve the things in it, and to keep persons from going into it that should not, to pollute or plunder it: these were placed in like manner as the four living creatures round the throne, Rev 4:6; where the allusion seems...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 1:53: 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. (i) By not having due regard to the tabernacle of the Lord.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 1:48-54: Num 1:48-54 Moses was not to muster the tribe of Levi along with the children of Israel, i.e., with the other tribes, or take their number, but to appoint the Levites for the service of the dwelling of the testimony (Exo 38:21), i.e., of the tabernacle, that they might encamp around it, might take it down when the camp was broken up, and set it...