⁶¹ Nadab and Abihu died when they presumed to offer a strange fire to the Eternal One. ⁶² The total number of Levite men, one month and older, was 23,000. They were not counted along with the rest of the people of Israel since they did not have a land inheritance.

⁶³ These are the people and their numbers that Moses and his nephew, Eleazar the priest, organized into armies when they stood on the plains of Moab, just across the Jordan River, east of Jericho.