⁶¹ But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire before^[a] Yahweh. ⁶² The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old^[b] and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the Israelites^[c] since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the Israelites.^[d]

⁶³ These were the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the Israelites^[e] on the desert-plateau of Moab on the Jordan across Jericho.