Numbers 1:16-54 ▼

16 These were chosen from the congregation, leaders of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of thousands in Israel.

17 And Moses took Aaron and these men who had been mentioned by name,

18 and they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month, and they recited their ancestry by clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, by their polls,

19 as YHWH had commanded Moses. And he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

20 And the sons of Reuben oldest son of Israel—their genealogies by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names individually, every male from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host—

21 those numbered of the tribe of Reuben were six and forty thousand and five hundred.

22 From the sons of Simeon, according to their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, numbered by the number of names individually, every male from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

23 those numbered of the tribe of Simeon were nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

24 From the sons of Gad, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

25 those numbered of the tribe of Gad were five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

26 From the sons of Judah, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

27 those numbered of the tribe of Judah were four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

28 From the sons of Issachar, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

29 those numbered of the tribe of Issachar were four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

30 From the sons of Zebulun, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

31 those numbered of the tribe of Zebulun were seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

32 From the sons of Joseph, the sons of Ephraim, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

33 those numbered of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand and five hundred.

34 From the sons of Manasseh, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

35 those numbered of the tribe of Manasseh were two and thirty thousand and two hundred.

36 From the sons of Benjamin, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

37 those numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

38 From the sons of Dan, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

39 those numbered of the tribe of Dan were two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

40 From the sons of Asher, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

41 those numbered of the tribe of Asher were one and forty thousand and five hundred.

42 From the sons of Naphtali, their genealogies, by their clans, by the house of their fathers, by the number of names, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host,

43 those numbered of the tribe of Naphtali were three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

44 These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses numbered—and Aaron and the princes of Israel, twelve men—each one was for the house of his father.

45 And all who were numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and above, everyone going out to the host in Israel,

46 even all who were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

47 And the Levites by the tribe of their fathers were not numbered in their midst,

48 for YHWH had spoken to Moses, saying,

49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, and a census of them you shall not take in the midst of the sons of Israel.

50 And you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all things that belong to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall attend to it, and around the tabernacle they shall camp.

51 And in the going forward of the tabernacle, the Levites shall take it down. And in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites shall set it up. And the outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

52 And the sons of Israel shall encamp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, by their hosts.

53 And the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may not be wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

54 And the sons of Israel did according to all that YHWH had commanded Moses; so they did.