“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not enroll, and you shall not take a census of them with the other Israelites.
The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and up, for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.
Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, the Levites were not enrolled among the other Israelites.
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,