Numbers 1:49
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New International Version (©2011)
"You must not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census of the other Israelites.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Do not include the tribe of Levi in the registration; do not count them with the rest of the Israelites.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Be sure not to number or count the tribe of Levi with the rest of the Israelis.

NET Bible (©2006)
"Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Don't register the tribe of Levi or include them in the census with the other Israelites.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

American King James Version
Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

American Standard Version
Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

Darby Bible Translation
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

Webster's Bible Translation
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

World English Bible
"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

Young's Literal Translation
'Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:47-54 Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular services shall be recompensed by singular honours. It was to the honour of the Levites, that to them was committed the care of the tabernacle and its treasures, in their camps and in their marches. It was for the honour of the holy things that none should see them, or touch them, but those who were called of God to the service. We all are unfit and unworthy to have fellowship with God, till called by his grace into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord; and so, being the spiritual seed of that great High Priest, we are made priests to our God. Great care must be taken to prevent sin, for preventing sin is preventing wrath. Being a holy tribe, they were not reckoned among other Israelites. They that minister about holy things, should neither entangle themselves, nor be entangled, in worldly affairs. And let every believer seek to do what the Lord has commanded.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Only thou shall not number the tribe of Levi,.... That is, along with the other tribes, for it might be numbered by itself, as it afterwards was, Numbers 3:43,

neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel; which confirms what is before observed: now this being the declared will of God clears Moses from all partiality to his own tribe, he doing nothing but what he had a command of God for it.

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Levites Exempted
47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48For the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying, 49Only you shall not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: …

Numbers 1:48 The LORD had said to Moses:
Numbers 26:62 All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000. They were not counted along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance among them.