CHAPTER 1

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the Tent of Meeting on the first of the second month in the second year of their going out from Egypt, saying, ²“Count the heads of all the community of the Israelites by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male by their heads. ³From twenty years old and up, everyone who goes out in the army in Israel, you shall reckon them by their battalions, you and Aaron. ⁴And with you let there be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his father’s house. ⁵And these are the names of the men who will stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur; ⁶for Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; ⁷for Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab; ⁸for Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar; ⁹for Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon; ¹⁰for the sons of Joseph—for Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, for Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; ¹¹for Benjamim, Abidan son of Gideoni; ¹²for Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; ¹³for Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran; ¹⁴for Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; ¹⁵for Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan. ¹⁶These are the ones called from the community, chieftains of their fathers’ tribes, they are the heads of the kin-groups of Israel.” ¹⁷And Moses, and Aaron with him, took these men who had been marked out by name. ¹⁸And all the community they assembled on the first of the second month, and they were affiliated by their clans, by their fathers’ houses according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, by their heads, ¹⁹as the LORD had charged Moses, and he made a reckoning of them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

²⁰And the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ²¹their reckoning for the tribe of Reuben, forty-six thousand five hundred. ²²For the sons of Simeon, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses according to the number of names, by their heads, every male from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ²³their reckoning for the tribe of Simeon, fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ²⁴For the sons of Gad, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ²⁵their reckoning for the tribe of Gad, forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. ²⁶For the sons of Judah, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ²⁷those reckoned for the tribe of Judah, seventy-four thousand six hundred. ²⁸For the sons of Issachar, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years and up, everyone who went out in the army, ²⁹their reckoning for the tribe of Issachar, fifty-four thousand four hundred. ³⁰For the sons of Zebulun those born to them, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ³¹their reckoning for the tribe of Zebulun, fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ³²For the sons of Joseph—for the sons of Ephraim, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ³³their reckoning for the tribe of Ephraim, forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴For the sons of Manasseh, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ³⁵their reckoning, for the tribe of Manasseh, thirty-two thousand two hundred. ³⁶For the sons of Benjamin, those born to them, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ³⁷their reckoning, for the tribe of Benjamin thirty-five thousand four hundred. ³⁸For the sons of Dan, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ³⁹their reckoning for the tribe of Dan sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ⁴⁰For the sons of Asher, those born to them, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army, ⁴¹their reckoning for the tribe of Asher forty-one thousand five hundred. ⁴²The sons of Naphtali, those born to them by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old up, everyone who went out in the army, ⁴³their reckoning for the tribe of Naphtali, fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴These are the reckonings that Moses, and Aaron and the chieftains of Israel, made, twelve men, one man for each father’s house they were. ⁴⁵And all the Israelites who were reckoned by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and up, everyone who went out in the army in Israel, ⁴⁶all the reckonings came to six hundred three thousand five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷And the Levites by the tribe of their fathers were not reckoned in their midst. ⁴⁸And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹“But the tribe of Levi you shall not reckon, and their heads you shall not count in the midst of the Israelites. ⁵⁰And you, make the Levites reckon with the Tabernacle of the Covenant and with all its furnishings and with all that belongs to it. They it is who shall bear the Tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall serve it, and around the Tabernacle they shall camp. ⁵¹And when the Tabernacle journeys onward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the Tabernacle camps, the Levites shall set it up, and the stranger who draws near shall be put to death. ⁵²And the Israelites shall camp each man with his camp and each man with his banner by their battalions. ⁵³And the Levites shall camp around the Tabernacle of the Covenant, that there be no fury against the community of Israelites, and the Levites shall keep watch over the Tabernacle of the Covenant. ⁵⁴And the Israelites did as all that the LORD had charged Moses, thus did they do.