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62 Those of the Levites[a] who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the rift valley plains[b] of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho. 64 But there was not a man among these who had been[c] among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:62 tn Heb “them”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Numbers 26:63 sn This is the area of the rift valley basin to the north of the Dead Sea and east of the Jordan. See the note at Num 21:1.
  3. Numbers 26:64 tn “who had been” is added to clarify the text.