The registration of the priests was according to the house of their fathers and the Levites from twenty years and above, according to their duties and their divisions.
Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the Lord: I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
These are those counted of the Levites by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
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.
Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from one month old and older, those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
All the firstborn males, by the number of names, from one month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
But when Jesus saw it, He was very displeased and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.