Numbers

Numbers

¹The LORD 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 came out of the land of Egypt. He said to him, ²"Take a census of the whole assembly of the people of Israel by their tribes and by their ancestral houses, listing the names one by one. ³Every male twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel who goes out with the army, you shall register by their divisions. ⁴You and Aaron shall register them. ⁵And one man from each tribe, a leader of his tribe from among their ancestral houses, shall be with you. ⁶These are the names of the men who will stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur. ⁷From Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ⁸From Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab. ⁹From Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar. ¹⁰From Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. ¹¹From the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ¹²From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni. ¹³From Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. ¹⁴From Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran. ¹⁵From Gad, Eliasaph son of Reuel. ¹⁶From Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan." ¹⁷These were the chosen ones of the assembly, the leaders of their tribes by their clans. They were the chiefs of Israel. ¹⁸Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named one by one. ¹⁹They gathered the whole assembly on the first day of the second month, in the second year, and they registered them by their clans, by their tribes, and by the number of their names, from twenty years old and upward, every male head by head, ²⁰as the LORD had commanded Moses. So they registered them at Mount Sinai. ²¹The descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ²²the number registered from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500. ²³The descendants of Simeon, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ²⁴the number registered from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300. ²⁵The descendants of Judah, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ²⁶the number registered from the tribe of Judah was 74,700. ²⁷The descendants of Issachar, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ²⁸the number registered from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400. ²⁹The descendants of Zebulun, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ³⁰the number registered from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400. ³¹The descendants of Joseph, that is, the descendants of Ephraim, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ³²the number registered from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500. ³³The descendants of Manasseh, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ³⁴the number registered from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200. ³⁵The descendants of Benjamin, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ³⁶the number registered from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400. [unclear in the Ge'ez] ³⁷The descendants of Gad, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ³⁸the number registered from the tribe of Gad was 45,750. ³⁹The descendants of Dan, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ⁴⁰the number registered from the tribe of Dan was 72,700. ⁴¹The descendants of Asher, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ⁴²the number registered from the tribe of Asher was 41,500. ⁴³The descendants of Naphtali, by their clans, their families, and their ancestral houses, by the number of their names, head by head, every male twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out with the army: ⁴⁴the number registered from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400. ⁴⁵This is the census that Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel took, twelve men, one man from each tribe, each from the tribe of his ancestral house. ⁴⁶The total number of the people of Israel by their divisions, from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel able to go to war, was 603,550. ⁴⁷But the Levites were with the tribe of their own descent, and they were not registered among the people of Israel. ⁴⁸The LORD spoke to Moses and said to him, ⁴⁹"Be careful not to register the tribe of Levi, and do not include their number among the people of Israel. ⁵⁰Appoint the Levites over the tent of meeting, over all its furnishings, and over everything that belongs to it. They are the ones who will carry the tent and all its furnishings, and they are the ones who will serve in it. They shall camp around the tent. ⁵¹When the tent is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tent is to stop, they shall set it up. Any outsider who joins them in going near shall die. ⁵²The people of Israel shall camp each man beside his neighbor, and each man by his own command, according to their divisions. ⁵³But the Levites shall camp all around the tent of meeting, so that no wrongdoing comes upon the people of Israel. The Levites shall keep the charge of the tent of meeting." ⁵⁴The people of Israel did everything the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. That is what they did.