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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 their clans, by their fathers’ households, 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 with you there shall be a representative from each tribe, each one being the head of their father’s household.
5These are the names of those who shall assist you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
6from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
7from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
8from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
9from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
10from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
11from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
12from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
13from Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran;
14from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15from Naphtali, Ahira 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 individuals who had been designated by name,
18and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their fathers’ households, and the males from twenty years old and upward were listed head by head,
19as the LORD commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, 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 forty-six thousand five hundred.
22Of the descendants of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, those 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 fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24Of the descendants of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
25those listed of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
26Of the descendants of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
27those listed of the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
28Of the descendants of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
29those listed of the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30Of the descendants of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
31those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32Of the descendants of Joseph, namely, of the descendants of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
33those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.
34Of the descendants of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
35those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36Of the descendants of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
37those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38Of the descendants of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
39those listed of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40Of the descendants of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
41those listed of the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.
42Of the descendants of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
43those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the leaders of Israel, twelve individuals, each representing their fathers’ household.
45So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ households, from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who were able to go to war,
46all those listed were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
47But the Levites were not listed among them by their ancestral tribe.
48For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
49“Only 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 shall 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, they shall be put to death.
52The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each in their own camp and each by their 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.
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