59. the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses and their sister Miriam.
60. Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61. But Nadab and Abihu died when they made an offering before the Lord with unauthorized fire.)
62. All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000. They were not counted along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance among them.
63. These are the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
64. Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai.
65. For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.