Numbers 1:47

47 Levitae autem in tribu familiarum suarum non sunt numerati cum eis

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

45 fueruntque omnes filiorum Israhel per domos et familias suas a vicesimo anno et supra qui poterant ad bella procedere

46 sescenta tria milia virorum quingenti quinquaginta

47 Levitae autem in tribu familiarum suarum non sunt numerati cum eis

48 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

49 tribum Levi noli numerare neque ponas summam eorum cum filiis Israhel