“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel;
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.
But the Levites were not numbered among the people of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
For the Lord said to Moses,