“Only the tribe of Levi you are not to number, and you are not to take a census of them among the Israelites.
In context
47But the Levites were not counted among them by their ancestral tribe. 48Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He said, 49“Only the tribe of Levi you are not to number, and you are not to take a census of them among the Israelites. 50Instead, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings, and over everything that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, they are to attend to it, and they are to camp around the tabernacle. 51Whenever the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. Any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
