and to the priests who were written in the genealogy according to their father’s house, and to the Lĕwites from twenty years old upward, by their duties in their divisions,
“Go, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I remember you, the loving-commitment of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
And these are the registered ones of the Lĕwites according to their clans: of Gĕrshon, the clan of the Gĕrshonites; of Qehath, the clan of the Qehathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.
And their registered ones were twenty-three thousand, every male from a new moon old and above. For they were not registered among the other children of Yisra’ĕl, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Yisra’ĕl.
And all the first-born males, by the number of names, from one new moon old and above of their registered ones, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.
And when יהושע saw it, He was much displeased and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the reign of Elohim.