Chapter 1

  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 were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  

  Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;  

  from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.  

  With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.  

  These are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.  

  Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  

  Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  

  Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.  

  Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.  

  Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  

  Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.  

  Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  

  Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.  

  Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.  

  Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.  

  These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.  

  Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name:  

  They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.  

  As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.  

  The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.  

  Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.  

  Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.  

  Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.  

  Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.  

  Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.  

  Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.  

  Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.  

  Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.  

  Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.  

  Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.  

  Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;  

  those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.  

  These are those who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.  

  So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war in Israel;  

  even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.  

  But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.  

  For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,  

  Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take the sum of them among the children of Israel;  

  but appoint you the Levites over the tent of the testimony, and over all the furniture of it, and over all that belongs to it: they shall bear the tent, and all the furniture of it; and they shall minister to it, and shall encamp round about the tent.  

  When the tent sets forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tent is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.  

  The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.  

  But the Levites shall encamp round about the tent of the testimony, that there be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tent of the testimony.  

  Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so did they.