Only you will not number the tribe of Levi, nor take the census of them among the Israelites,
Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, each male from one month old and older; for they were not counted among the Israelites, because there was no inheritance given them among the Israelites.
But the Levites were not numbered among the Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.
For the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying: