Numbers 1:47-49

Tree of Life Version

Duties of the Levities

⁴⁷ The Levites, however, were not counted by the tribe of their ancestors, ⁴⁸ for Adonai told Moses saying, ⁴⁹ “Definitely you are not to number the tribe of Levi, nor take the sum of them among Bnei-Yisrael.