The Exemption of the Levites But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
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TSK · Numbers 26:62
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All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the LORD, according to their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.
those of them numbered were 8,580.
But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the sacrificial offerings made to the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.
Now Moses had assigned land to the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land to the Levites.