Numbers 1:1-21 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their counted heads;

3 from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going out to the host in Israel, you number them by their hosts, you and Aaron;

4 and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head of the house of his fathers.

5 And these [are] the names of the men who stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

6 for Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

7 for Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

8 for Issachar, Nathaneel son of Zuar;

9 for Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;

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

11 for Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

12 for Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

13 for Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

14 for Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

15 for Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

16 These [are] those called of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they [are] heads of the thousands of Israel.

17 And Moses takes—Aaron also—these men, who were defined by name,

18 and they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their counted heads,

19 as YHWH has commanded Moses; and he numbers them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 And the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn—their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their counted heads, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going out to the host—

21 their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are forty-six thousand and five hundred.