Numbers 1

1And Yahweh 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 the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

3From twenty years old and upward, every man going out to war in Israel—you and Aaron shall count them by their companies.

4And with you there shall be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his fathers’ house.

5And these are the names of the men who shall 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 Benjamin: Abidan son of Gideoni.

12For Dan: Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

13From Asher: Pagiel son of Ocran.

14from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

15For Naphtali: Ahira son of Enan.

16These were the ones called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes, the heads of the thousands of Israel.

17So Moses and Aaron took these men, who had been designated by name.

18And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month, and they registered themselves by clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head.

19just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, by 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, everyone going out to war:

21Their counted men from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

22For the sons of Simeon, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those numbered of them, by the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone going out to war:

23their counted men from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24For the sons of Gad, by 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 out to war:

25Those counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

26For the sons of Judah, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male going out to war:

27Those counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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

29those counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

30For the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male able to go out to war:

31Those registered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

32For the sons of Joseph, for the sons of Ephraim, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man going out to war:

33Those registered from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.

34From the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man going out for military service:

35Their numbered men from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

36For the sons of Benjamin, by 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 out to war:

37Those counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

38For the sons of Dan, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male able to go out to war:

39Those counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

40For the sons of Asher, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man going out to war:

41Those counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.

42The sons of Naphtali, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male able to go out to war:

43those counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44These are the ones counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the leaders of Israel—twelve men, each one for his fathers’ house—were with them.

45So all those counted of the sons of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every one able to go out to war in Israel,

46So all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred and fifty.

47But the Levites, by their ancestral tribe, were not counted among them.

48Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

49Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, and you shall not take their number among the sons of Israel.

50But you, 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 are to minister to it, and they are to camp around the tabernacle.

51When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to camp, the Levites shall set it up. And the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

52The sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his camp and each man by his banner, according to their divisions.

53But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

54So the sons of Israel did according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did.