Numbers 1

1 Ref And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Ref Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

3 Ref From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

4 Ref And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

5 Ref And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6 Ref Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

7 Ref Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

8 Ref Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

9 Ref Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.

10 Ref Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

11 Ref Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

12 Ref Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

13 Ref Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.

14 Ref Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

15 Ref Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.

16 Ref These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

17 Ref And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

18 Ref And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

19 Ref As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 Ref And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

21 Ref Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

22 Ref Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

23 Ref Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

24 Ref Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

25 Ref Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

26 Ref Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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