Numbers 1
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt:
2 “Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites, by their clans and families, listing the names of every man, one by one.
3 From twenty years old and up, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war, you and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
4 A man from each tribe shall be with you; each one is the head of his family.
5 These are the names of the men who shall be with you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
7 from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
10 from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni.”
12 “From Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15 from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
16 These were the appointed representatives of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes; they were the heads of Israel’s thousands.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men, who had been designated by name.
18 They gathered the whole community on the first day of the second month, and the people registered by their descent, by their clans and families, listing the names of those twenty years old and up, one by one.
19 As the LORD had commanded Moses, he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: their generations, by their clans and families, listed by name, one by one—all the men twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
21 The number counted from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22 The descendants of Simeon, by their clans and families, those counted, listed by name, one by one—all the men twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
23 The number counted from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24 The descendants of Gad, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
25 The number counted from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26 The descendants of Judah, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
27 The number counted from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
28 The descendants of Issachar, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
29 The number counted from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
30 The descendants of Zebulun, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
31 The number counted from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
32 The descendants of Joseph, the descendants of Ephraim, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
33 The number counted from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
34 The descendants of Manasseh, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
35 The number counted from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
36 The descendants of Benjamin, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
37 The number counted from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
38 The descendants of Dan, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
39 The number counted from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
40 The descendants of Asher, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
41 The number counted from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
42 The descendants of Naphtali, by their clans and families, listed by name, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:
43 The number counted from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
44 These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron, together with Israel’s leaders, twelve men, each one representing his family.
45 So all the Israelites were counted by their families, from twenty years old and up, everyone in Israel able to go to war.
46 The total number counted was 603,550.
47 But the Levites, by their ancestral tribe, were not counted among them.
48 The LORD spoke to Moses:
49 “You shall not count the tribe of Levi or include them in the census among the Israelites.
50 You shall put the Levites in charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, take care of it, and camp around it.
51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; when it is to camp, the Levites shall set it up. Anyone else who comes near it shall be put to death.
52 The Israelites shall camp, each in their own camp and beside their own banner, by their divisions.
53 But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, so that no anger may fall on the community of the Israelites. The Levites shall be responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
54 The Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses; that is what they did.
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