So Moses and Aaron obeyed the LORD and counted the Levites by their clans. The total number of Levites at least one month old was twenty-two thousand.
In the tribe of Levi there were 23,000 men and boys at least a month old. They were not listed with the other tribes, because they would not receive any land in Canaan.
there were 22,273 of them.
But the gate to life is very narrow. The road that leads there is so hard to follow that only a few people find it.