However, you shall not number the tribe of Levi, and you shall not count their heads among the sons of Israel.
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
But the Levites were not numbered among the sons of Israel, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
And their numbered ones were twentythree thousand, all males, from a son of a month and upward. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, because there was no possession given them among the sons of Israel.