Numbers Chapter 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 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.