Numbers 1:47

47 The Levites were not registered with the other tribes,

Numbers 1:47 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:47

But the Levites
The tribe of Levi were excepted from this muster, they being employed in a kind of warfare, and therefore not to be engaged in another:

after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them:
the rest of the tribes; the reason follows.

Numbers 1:47 In-Context

47 The Levites were not registered with the other tribes,

48 because the Lord had said to Moses,

49 "When you take a census of the men fit for military service, do not include the tribe of Levi.