“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.
For the Lord had spoken to Moses, saying,
The Levites, however, were not counted among the sons of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.