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Numbers 1:1-54 — The First Census

Num.1.1-54

¹The 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 the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head; ³from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel who is able to go out to war. You and Aaron shall register them by their divisions. ⁴And with you there shall be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his fathers' house. ⁵These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ⁶from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai ; ⁷from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; ⁸from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar; ⁹from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon; ¹⁰from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; ¹¹from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni; ¹²from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; ¹³from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran; ¹⁴from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel; ¹⁵from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan." ¹⁶These were the ones called from the congregation, the leaders of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. ¹⁷Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, ¹⁸and they assembled the whole congregation on the first day of the second month. And they registered their ancestry by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head. ¹⁹Just as the LORD had commanded Moses, so he registered them in the wilderness of Sinai. ²⁰Now the sons of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ²¹those registered of them for the tribe of Reuben were 46,500. ²²Of the sons of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, those registered of them according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ²³those registered of them for the tribe of Simeon were 59,300. ²⁴Of the sons of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ²⁵those registered of them for the tribe of Gad were 45,650. ²⁶Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ²⁷those registered of them for the tribe of Judah were 74,600. ²⁸Of the sons of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ²⁹those registered of them for the tribe of Issachar were 54,400. ³⁰Of the sons of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ³¹those registered of them for the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400. ³²Of the sons of Joseph: of the sons of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ³³those registered of them for the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500. ³⁴Of the sons of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ³⁵those registered of them for the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200. ³⁶Of the sons of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ³⁷those registered of them for the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400. ³⁸Of the sons of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ³⁹those registered of them for the tribe of Dan were 62,700. ⁴⁰Of the sons of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ⁴¹those registered of them for the tribe of Asher were 41,500. ⁴²The sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war: ⁴³those registered of them for the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400. ⁴⁴These are the ones who were registered, whom Moses and Aaron registered, along with the leaders of Israel, twelve men; each man was for his fathers' house. ⁴⁵So all those registered of the sons of Israel, by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go out to war in Israel, ⁴⁶all those registered were 603,550. ⁴⁷But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not registered among them. ⁴⁸For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: ⁴⁹"Only the tribe of Levi you shall not register, and you shall not take a census of them among the sons of Israel. ⁵⁰But you shall 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 attend to it, and they shall camp around the tabernacle. ⁵¹When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the outsider who comes near shall be put to death. ⁵²The sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their divisions. ⁵³But the Levites shall camp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, so that there will be no wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep charge of the Tabernacle of the Testimony." ⁵⁴Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so they did.

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4/11/2026

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