Numbers
Chapter 1
New King James Version1Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle 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 children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,
3"from twenty years old and above -- all who [are able to] go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4"And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father's house.
5" These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6"from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7"from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8"from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9"from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10"from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11"from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12"from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;
13"from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran;
14"from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
15"from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan."
16These [were] chosen from the congregation, leaders of their fathers' tribes, heads of the divisions in Israel.
17Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name,
18and they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.
19As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.
20Now the children of Reuben, Israel's oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
21those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben [were] forty-six thousand five hundred.
22From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
23those who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon [were] fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
25those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad [were] forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
27those who were numbered of the tribe of Judah [were] seventy-four thousand six hundred.
28From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
29those who were numbered of the tribe of Issachar [were] fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30From the children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
31those who were numbered of the tribe of Zebulun [were] fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
33those who were numbered of the tribe of Ephraim [were] forty thousand five hundred.
34From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
35those who were numbered of the tribe of Manasseh [were] thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36From the children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
37those who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin [were] thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
39those who were numbered of the tribe of Dan [were] sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40From the children of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
41those who were numbered of the tribe of Asher [were] forty-one thousand five hundred.
42From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to] go to war:
43those who were numbered of the tribe of Naphtali [were] fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father's house.
45So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and above, all who [were able to go] to war in Israel --
46all who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
47But the Levites were not numbered among them by their fathers' tribe;
48for the LORD had spoken to Moses, saying:
49"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel;
50"but you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it; they shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; they shall attend to it and camp around the tabernacle.
51"And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
52"The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own standard, according to their armies;
53"but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony."
54Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.
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