Bamidbar 1:47

47 But the Levi’im after the tribe of their avot were not numbered among them.

Bamidbar 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.

Bamidbar 1:47 In-Context

45 So were all those that were numbered of the Bnei Yisroel, by the bais of their avot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava b’Yisroel (army in Yisroel);

46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

47 But the Levi’im after the tribe of their avot were not numbered among them.

48 For Hashem had spoken unto Moshe saying,

49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the Bnei Yisroel;