Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Yisrael:
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Yisrael, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Yisrael.
But the Lvim were not numbered among the children of Yisrael; as YY Commanded Moshe.
For YY had spoken unto Moshe, saying,