Numbers 1

¹The 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 had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, ²“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head; ³from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war, you and Aaron shall number them, company by company. ⁴And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. ⁵And these are the names of the men who shall attend you. From Reuben, Eliʹzur the son of Shedʹeur; ⁶from Simeon, Sheluʹmi-el the son of Zurishadʹdai; ⁷from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminʹadab; ⁸from Isʹsachar, Nethanʹel the son of Zuʹar; ⁹from Zebʹulun, Eliʹab the son of Helon; ¹⁰from the sons of Joseph, from Eʹphraim, Elishʹama the son of Ammiʹhud, and from Manasʹseh, Gamaʹliel the son of Pedahʹzur; ¹¹from Benjamin, Abʹidan the son of Gideoʹni; ¹²from Dan, Ahi-eʹzer the son of Ammishadʹdai; ¹³from Asher, Paʹgiel the son of Ochran; ¹⁴from Gad, Eliʹasaph the son of Deuʹel; ¹⁵from Naphʹtali, Ahiʹra the son of Enan.” ¹⁶These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

¹⁷Moses and Aaron took these men who have been named, ¹⁸and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by families, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head, ¹⁹as the Lord commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

²⁰The people of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war: ²¹the number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.

²²Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war: ²³the number of the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

²⁴Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war: ²⁵the number of the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

²⁶Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ²⁷the number of the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred.

²⁸Of the people of Isʹsachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ²⁹the number of the tribe of Isʹsachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.

³⁰Of the people of Zebʹulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ³¹the number of the tribe of Zebʹulun was fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

³²Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Eʹphraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ³³the number of the tribe of Eʹphraim was forty thousand five hundred.

³⁴Of the people of Manasʹseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ³⁵the number of the tribe of Manasʹseh was thirty-two thousand two hundred.

³⁶Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ³⁷the number of the tribe of Benjamin was thirty-five thousand four hundred.

³⁸Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ³⁹the number of the tribe of Dan was sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

⁴⁰Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ⁴¹the number of the tribe of Asher was forty-one thousand five hundred.

⁴²Of the people of Naphʹtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war: ⁴³the number of the tribe of Naphʹtali was fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered with the help of the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house. ⁴⁵So the whole number of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go forth to war in Israel—⁴⁶their whole number was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

⁴⁷But the Levites were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them. ⁴⁸For the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁹“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel; ⁵⁰but appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall tend it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle. ⁵¹When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death. ⁵²The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, every man by his own camp and every man by his own standard; ⁵³but the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may be no wrath upon the congregation of the people of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.” ⁵⁴Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.