And the Levites were numbered after their families: and all that were numbered of them according to their families were twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel — The Levites total 23,000, counted from infants onward (unlike the other tribes, counted from age twenty). This lower count reflects the Levites' different role: not warriors and landholders but priestly servants and sanctuary workers. Their inheritance is the LORD Himself (Numbers 18:20).

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