44. These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.
45. All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.
46. And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
47. But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
48. The Lord had said to Moses,
49. “Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.
50. But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.