“Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.