Numbers 1:1-4 ▼

1 In the Sinai desert, the LORD spoke to Moses inside the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said,

2 |Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one,

3 from 20 years and upward. You and Aaron are to register everyone in Israel who is able to go to war, company by company.

4 One man from each tribe is to accompany you, each man being the leader of his ancestral house.