Chapter 1
1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai , in the Tent of Meeting , on the first day of the second month , in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt , saying ,
2 " Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , every male , one by one ,
3 from twenty years old and upward , all who are able to go out to war in Israel . You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe , each one head of his fathers’ house .
5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben : Elizur the son of Shedeur .
6 Of Simeon : Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai .
7 Of Judah : Nahshon the son of Amminadab .
8 Of Issachar : Nethanel the son of Zuar .
9 Of Zebulun : Eliab the son of Helon .
10 Of the children of Joseph : of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud ; of Manasseh : Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur .
11 Of Benjamin : Abidan the son of Gideoni .
12 Of Dan : Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai .
13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran .
14 Of Gad : Eliasaph the son of Deuel .
15 Of Naphtali : Ahira the son of Enan ."
16 These are those who were called of the congregation , the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel .
17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name .
18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month ; and they declared their ancestry by their families , by their fathers ’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , one by one .
19 As the LORD commanded Moses , so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai .
20 The children of Reuben , Israel ’s firstborn , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , one by one , every male from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
21 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Reuben , were forty-six thousand five hundred .
22 Of the children of Simeon , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , those who were counted of it , according to the number of the names , one by one , every male from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
23 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Simeon , were fifty-nine thousand three hundred .
24 Of the children of Gad , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
25 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Gad , were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty .
26 Of the children of Judah , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
27 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Judah , were seventy-four thousand six hundred .
28 Of the children of Issachar , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
29 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Issachar , were fifty-four thousand four hundred .
30 Of the children of Zebulun , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
31 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Zebulun , were fifty-seven thousand four hundred .
32 Of the children of Joseph : of the children of Ephraim , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
33 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred .
34 Of the children of Manasseh , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
35 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Manasseh , were thirty-two thousand two hundred .
36 Of the children of Benjamin , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
37 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Benjamin , were thirty-five thousand four hundred .
38 Of the children of Dan , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
39 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Dan , were sixty-two thousand seven hundred .
40 Of the children of Asher, their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
41 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred .
42 Of the children of Naphtali , their generations , by their families , by their fathers’ houses , according to the number of the names , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war :
43 those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Naphtali , were fifty-three thousand four hundred .
44 These are those who were counted , whom Moses and Aaron counted , and the twelve men who were princes of Israel , each one for his fathers’ house .
45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses , from twenty years old and upward , all who were able to go out to war in Israel —
46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty .
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them .
48 For the LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,
49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count , neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel ;
50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony , and over all its furnishings , and over all that belongs to it . They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings ; and they shall take care of it , and shall encamp around it .
51 When the tabernacle is to move , the Levites shall take it down ; and when the tabernacle is to be set up , the Levites shall set it up . The stranger who comes near shall be put to death .
52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents , every man by his own camp , and every man by his own standard , according to their divisions.
53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony , that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel . The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony ."
54 Thus the children of Israel did . According to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so they did .