Numbers 3:38-40

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁸ Also, on the forefront of the Tabernacle, toward the east, before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, eastward, Moses and Aaron and his sons were to pitch, having charge of the Sanctuary and charge of the children of Israel. But the stranger who came near would be killed.

³⁹ The whole sum 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 above, was twenty-two thousand.

⁴⁰ And the LORD said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn who are males among the children of Israel from a month old and above and take the number of their names.