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Numbers 1

¹On the first day of the second month in the second year after the people of Israel left Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses there in the Tent of his presence in the Sinai Desert. He said,

²"You and Aaron are to take a census of the people of Israel by clans and families. List the names of all the men

³twenty years old or older who are fit for military service.

⁴Ask one clan chief from each tribe to help you."

⁵These are the men, leaders within their tribes, who were chosen from the community for this work: - Tribe - Clan chief - Reuben - Elizur son of Shedeur - Simeon - Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai - Judah - Nahshon son of Amminadab - Issachar - Nethanel son of Zuar - Zebulun - Eliab son of Helon - Ephraim - Elishama son of Ammihud - Manasseh - Gamaliel son of Pedahzur - Benjamin - Abidan son of Gideoni - Dan - Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai - Asher - Pagiel son of Ochran - Gad - Eliasaph son of Deuel - Naphtali - Ahira son of Enan

¹⁷With the help of these twelve men Moses and Aaron

¹⁸called together the whole community on the first day of the second month and registered all the people by clans and families. The names of all the men twenty years old or older were recorded and counted,

¹⁹as the LORD had commanded. In the Sinai Desert, Moses registered the people.

²⁰The men twenty years old or older who were fit for military service were registered by name according to clan and family, beginning with the tribe of Reuben, Jacob's oldest son. The totals were as follows: - Tribe - Number - Reuben - 46,500 - Simeon - 59,300 - Gad - 45,650 - Judah - 74,600 - Issachar - 54,400 - Zebulun - 57,400 - Ephraim - 40,500 - Manasseh - 32,200 - Benjamin - 35,400 - Dan - 62,700 - Asher - 41,500 - Naphtali - 53,400 - Total: - 603,550

⁴⁷The Levites were not registered with the other tribes,

⁴⁸because the LORD had said to Moses,

⁴⁹"When you take a census of the men fit for military service, do not include the tribe of Levi.

⁵⁰Instead, put the Levites in charge of the Tent of my presence and all its equipment. They shall carry it and its equipment, serve in it, and set up their camp around it.

⁵¹Whenever you move your camp, the Levites shall take the Tent down and set it up again at each new campsite. Anyone else who comes near the Tent shall be put to death.

⁵²The rest of the Israelites shall set up camp, company by company, each man with his own group and under his own banner.

⁵³But the Levites shall camp around the Tent to guard it, so that no one may come near and cause my anger to strike the community of Israel."

⁵⁴So the people of Israel did everything that the LORD had commanded Moses.