1:1 | *Now the Lord* spoke* to Moses in the tent of meeting* in the wilderness* of Sinai* on the first day of the second month of the second year after* the Israelites* departed from the land of Egypt.* He said:* |
1:2 | “Take a census* of the entire* Israelite community* by their clans and families,* counting the name of every individual male.* |
1:3 | You and Aaron are to number* all in Israel who can serve in the army,* those who are* twenty years old or older,* by their divisions.* |
1:4 | And to help you* there is to be a man from each* tribe, each man* the head* of his family.* |
1:5 | Now these are the names of the men who are to help* you: from* Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur; |
1:6 | from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;* |
1:7 | from Judah, Nahshon* son of Amminadab; |
1:8 | from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar; |
1:9 | from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; |
1:10 | from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; |
1:11 | from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; |
1:12 | from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; |
1:13 | from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; |
1:14 | from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;* |
1:15 | from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.” |
1:16 | These were the ones chosen* from the community, leaders* of their ancestral tribes.* They were the heads of the thousands* of Israel. |
1:17 | So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name, |
1:18 | and they assembled* the entire community together on the first day of the second month.* Then the people recorded their ancestry* by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed* by name individually, |
1:19 | just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. |
1:20 | And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. |
1:21 | Those of them who were numbered* from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.* |
1:22 | From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them* twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. |
1:23 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300. |
1:24 | *From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:25 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650. |
1:26 | From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:27 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600. |
1:28 | From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:29 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400. |
1:30 | From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:31 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400. |
1:32 | From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:33 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500. |
1:34 | From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:35 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200. |
1:36 | From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:37 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400. |
1:38 | From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:39 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700. |
1:40 | From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:41 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500. |
1:42 | From* the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. |
1:43 | Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400. |
1:44 | These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered* along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom* was from his own family. |
1:45 | All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered* according to their families. |
1:46 | And all those numbered totaled 603,550. |
1:47 | But* the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers,* were not numbered* among them. |
1:48 | The Lord had said to Moses,* |
1:49 | “Only the tribe of Levi* you must not number* or count* with* the other Israelites. |
1:50 | But appoint* the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony,* over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry* the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they* must attend to it and camp around it.* |
1:51 | Whenever the tabernacle is to move,* the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled,* the Levites must set it up.* Any unauthorized person* who approaches it must be killed. |
1:52 | “The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard. |
1:53 | But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord’s anger* will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care* of the tabernacle of the testimony.” |
1:54 | The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses* – that is what they did. |