All those numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at Yahweh’s command, by their clans, every male one month old or older, numbered twenty-two thousand.
In context
37as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard, their bases, their pegs, and their cords. 38Those who camped before the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting, on the east, were Moses and Aaron and his sons. They kept charge of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites. Any outsider who came near was to be put to death. 39All those numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at Yahweh’s command, by their clans, every male one month old or older, numbered twenty-two thousand. 40Yahweh said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites one month old or older, and take the count of their names. 41Take the Levites for me — I am Yahweh — in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites in place of every firstborn among the livestock of the Israelites.”
