Numbers 1:1-16 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt:

2 “ Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.

3 You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more by their military divisions  — everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

4 A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house.

5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you: Elizur son of Shedeur from Reuben;

6 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai from Simeon;

7 Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah;

8 Nethanel son of Zuar from Issachar;

9 Eliab son of Helon from Zebulun;

10 from the sons of Joseph: Elishama son of Ammihud from Ephraim, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur from Manasseh;

11 Abidan son of Gideoni from Benjamin;

12 Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai from Dan;

13 Pagiel son of Ochran from Asher;

14 Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad;

15 Ahira son of Enan from Naphtali.

16 These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”