Numbers1

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 ,

²Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel , by clans , 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 to war , you and Aaron shall list 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 assist you. From Reuben , Elizur the son of Shedeur ;

⁶from Simeon , Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai ;

⁷from Judah , Nahshon the son of Amminadab ;

⁸from Issachar , Nethanel the son of Zuar ;

⁹from Zebulun , Eliab the son of Helon ;

¹⁰from the sons of Joseph , from Ephraim , Elishama the son of Ammihud , and from Manasseh , Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur ;

¹¹from Benjamin , Abidan the son of Gideoni ;

¹²from Dan , Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai ;

¹³from Asher , Pagiel the son of Ochran ;

¹⁴from Gad , Eliasaph the son of Deuel ;

¹⁵from Naphtali , Ahira the son of Enan .

¹⁶These were the ones chosen from the congregation , the chiefs of their ancestral tribes , the heads of the clans of Israel .

¹⁷Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named ,

¹⁸and on the first day of the second month , they assembled the whole congregation together , who registered themselves by clans , 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 listed them in the wilderness of Sinai .

²⁰The people of Reuben , Israel’s firstborn , their generations , by their clans , 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 to war :

²¹those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500 .

²²Of the people of Simeon , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , those of them who were listed , according to the number of names , head by head , every male from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go to war :

²³those listed of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300 .

²⁴Of the people of Gad , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go to war :

²⁵those listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650 .

²⁶Of the people of Judah , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

²⁷those listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600 .

²⁸Of the people of Issachar , their generations , by their clans, by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

²⁹those listed of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400 .

³⁰Of the people of Zebulun , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

³¹those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400 .

³²Of the people of Joseph , namely, of the people of Ephraim , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

³³those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500 .

³⁴Of the people of Manasseh , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

³⁵those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200 .

³⁶Of the people of Benjamin, their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

³⁷those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400 .

³⁸Of the people of Dan , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

³⁹those listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700 .

⁴⁰Of the people of Asher , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

⁴¹those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500 .

⁴²Of the people of Naphtali , their generations , by their clans , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of names , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war :

⁴³those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400 .

⁴⁴These are those who were listed , whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel , twelve men , each representing his fathers ’ house .

⁴⁵So all those listed of the people of Israel , by their fathers ’ houses , from twenty years old and upward , every man able to go to war in Israel —

⁴⁶all those listed were 603,550 .

⁴⁷But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe .

⁴⁸For the Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

⁴⁹Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list , 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 take care of it and shall camp 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 outsider comes near, he shall be put to death .

⁵²The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies , each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard .

⁵³But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony , so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel . And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony .

⁵⁴Thus did the people of Israel ; they did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses .