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Ramban on Numbers 26:63/רמב"ן על במדבר כ״ו:ס״ג
אוְטַעַם אֵלֶּה פְּקוּדֵי מֹשֶׁה וְאֶלְעָזָר עַל פְּקוּדֵי בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, אֵין פְּקוּדֵי הַלֵּוִי בִּכְלָל, כִּי בָּהֶם לֹא יֹאמַר ״וּבְאֵלֶּה לֹא הָיָה אִישׁ״, שֶׁלֹּא נִגְזְרָה הַגְּזֵרָה הַהִיא עַל שֵׁבֶט הַלֵּוִי כְּדִבְרֵי רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (ב״ב קכא), וְהָעֵד אֶלְעָזָר גַּם פִּנְחָס:
1THESE ARE THEY THAT WERE NUMBERED BY MOSES AND ELEAZAR. [This phrase refers] to they that were numbered of [...] the children of Israel [mentioned further on in this verse], but does not refer to they that were numbered of the Levites [Verse 57], because of them it could not be said [as is said in the following verse]: But among them there was not a man [of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest in the wilderness of Sinai],152 since that decree [that they must perish in the wilderness] did not apply to the tribe of Levi, as our Rabbis have said.153 And a proof [of this is] Eleazar, and also Phinehas [who were born in Egypt154 and yet are both mentioned here, and came into the Land].155