The total number of male Levites, 23,000, shows an increase of 1,000 on the number at Sinai (Numbers 3:39). It is doubtless to be taken…

Twenty-three thousand.— At the former census the number was 22,000 or 22,300 (See Numbers 3:39, and Note.)

(See Gill on Numbers 26:57)

Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It did not come under the sentence, that none of them should enter Ca…