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Numbers 2

¹GOD spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, “The People of Israel are to set up camp circling the Tent of Meeting and facing it. Each company is to camp under its distinctive tribal flag.”

³To the east toward the sunrise are the companies of the camp of Judah under its flag, led by Nahshon son of Amminadab. His troops number 74,600.

⁵The tribe of Issachar will camp next to them, led by Nethanel son of Zuar. His troops number 54,400.

⁷And the tribe of Zebulun is next to them, led by Eliab son of Helon. His troops number 57,400.

⁹The total number of men assigned to Judah, troop by troop, is 186,400. They will lead the march.

¹⁰To the south are the companies of the camp of Reuben under its flag, led by Elizur son of Shedeur. His troops number 46,500.

¹²The tribe of Simeon will camp next to them, led by Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. His troops number 59,300.

¹⁴And the tribe of Gad is next to them, led by Eliasaph son of Deuel. His troops number 45,650.

¹⁶The total number of men assigned to Reuben, troop by troop, is 151,450. They are second in the order of the march.

¹⁷The Tent of Meeting with the camp of the Levites takes its place in the middle of the march. Each tribe will march in the same order in which they camped, each under its own flag.

¹⁸To the west are the companies of the camp of Ephraim under its flag, led by Elishama son of Ammihud. His troops number 40,500.

²⁰The tribe of Manasseh will set up camp next to them, led by Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. His troops number 32,200.

²²And next to him is the camp of Benjamin, led by Abidan son of Gideoni. His troops number 35,400.

²⁴The total number of men assigned to the camp of Ephraim, troop by troop, is 108,100. They are third in the order of the march.

²⁵To the north are the companies of the camp of Dan under its flag, led by Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. His troops number 62,700.

²⁷The tribe of Asher will camp next to them, led by Pagiel son of Ocran. His troops number 41,500.

²⁹And next to them is the tribe of Naphtali, led by Ahira son of Enan. His troops number 53,400.

³¹The total number of men assigned to the camp of Dan number 157,600. They will set out, under their flags, last in the line of the march.

³²These are the People of Israel, counted according to their ancestral families. The total number in the camps, counted troop by troop, comes to 603,550. Following GOD’s command to Moses, the Levites were not counted in with the rest of Israel.

³⁴The People of Israel did everything the way GOD commanded Moses: They camped under their respective flags; they marched by tribe with their ancestral families.