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 ,[#1:1 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “”, usually pronounced Yahweh).]

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 ,

³from 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.

⁴With you there shall be a man of every tribe , each one head of his fathers’ house .

⁵These are the names of the men who shall stand with you:

Of Reuben : Elizur the son of Shedeur .

⁶Of Simeon : Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai .

⁷Of Judah : Nahshon the son of Amminadab .

⁸Of Issachar : Nethanel the son of Zuar .

⁹Of Zebulun : Eliab the son of Helon .

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

¹¹Of Benjamin : Abidan the son of Gideoni .

¹²Of Dan : Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai .

¹³Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran .

¹⁴Of Gad : Eliasaph the son of Deuel .

¹⁵Of Naphtali : Ahira the son of Enan .”

¹⁶These 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 .[#1:16 or, chiefs, or, leaders]

¹⁷Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name .

¹⁸They 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 .

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

²⁰The 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 :

²¹those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Reuben , were forty-six thousand and five hundred .

²²Of 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 :

²³those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Simeon , were fifty-nine thousand and three hundred .

²⁴Of 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 :

²⁵those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Gad , were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty .

²⁶Of 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 :

²⁷those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Judah , were seventy-four thousand and six hundred .

²⁸Of 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 :

²⁹those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Issachar , were fifty-four thousand and four hundred .

³⁰Of 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 :

³¹those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Zebulun , were fifty-seven thousand and four hundred .

³²Of 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 :

³³those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred .

³⁴Of 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 :

³⁵those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Manasseh , were thirty-two thousand and two hundred .

³⁶Of 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 :

³⁷those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Benjamin , were thirty-five thousand and four hundred .

³⁸Of 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 :

³⁹those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Dan , were sixty-two thousand and seven hundred .

⁴⁰Of 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 :

⁴¹those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand and five hundred .

⁴²Of 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 :

⁴³those who were counted of them , of the tribe of Naphtali , were fifty-three thousand and four hundred .

⁴⁴These 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 .

⁴⁵So 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 —

⁴⁶all those who were counted were six hundred and three thousand and five hundred and fifty .

⁴⁷But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted amongst them .

⁴⁸For the LORD spoke to Moses , saying ,

⁴⁹“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count , neither shall you take a census of them amongst the children of Israel ;

⁵⁰but 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 .

⁵¹When 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 .

⁵²The children of Israel shall pitch their tents , every man by his own camp , and every man by his own standard , according to their divisions.

⁵³But 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 .”

⁵⁴Thus the children of Israel did . According to all that the LORD commanded Moses , so they did .