Numbers 2:33
“But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.”
All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.
These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Related Verses
“Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:”
“But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.”
“All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.”
“And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.”
“And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.”