1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after their going out from 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, everyone in Israel able to go out to war — you shall enroll them by their divisions, you and Aaron.
4And with you shall be a man for each tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.
5These 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;
13for Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran;
14for Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
15for Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.
16These were the ones called from the congregation, the leaders of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
18and they assembled the whole congregation on the first of the second month, and they registered themselves by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head.
19As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20And the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn — 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 able to go out to war:
21their enrolled ones for the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
22For the sons of Simeon — their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, its enrolled ones according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
23their enrolled ones for the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24For the sons of Gad — their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
25their enrolled ones for the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
26For the sons of Judah — their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
27their enrolled ones for the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
28For the sons of Issachar — their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
29their enrolled ones for the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30For the sons of Zebulun — their generations by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war:
31their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
33their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
34Of the sons of Manasseh: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
35their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36Of the sons of Benjamin: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
37their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38Of the sons of Dan: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
39their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40Of the sons of Asher: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
41their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
42The sons of Naphtali: their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, in the count of names, from twenty years old and upward, all who go out to the army—
43their enrolled ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44These are the ones enrolled, whom Moses and Aaron enrolled, together with the leaders of Israel, twelve men; each one was for his fathers’ house.
45So all the enrolled ones of the sons of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who go out to the army—
46So all who were enrolled came to six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47But the Levites, by the tribe of their fathers, were not enrolled among them.
48And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:
49Only the tribe of Levi you shall not enroll, and their head-count you shall not take up among the sons of Israel.
50But you, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony and over all its vessels and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they shall minister to it, and around the tabernacle they shall camp.
51When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to encamp, the Levites shall set it up; and the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.
52The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own camp and each by his own standard, according to their armies.
53But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that no wrath may come upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.
54And the sons of Israel did so; according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so they did.
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