Only the tribe of Levi thou shall not number, neither shall thou take the sum of them among the sons of Israel,
And those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the sons of Israel.
But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel, as LORD commanded Moses.
For LORD spoke to Moses, saying,