“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel;
For the Lord said to Moses,
But the Levites were not numbered among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And those numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.