44. These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house.
45. So all the Israelites 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral houses.
46. All those registered numbered 603,550.
47. But the Levites were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe.
48. For the Lord had told Moses:
49. “Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.