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A Census of Israel’s Warriors

(cf. 2Sa 24:1–9; 1Ch 21:1–6 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3 - From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:4 - And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:5 - And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:6 - from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:7 - from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:8 - from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:9 - from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:10 - from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:11 - from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:12 - from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:13 - from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:14 - from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:15 - from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:17 - Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - as the LORD commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - The people 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, all who were able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - those listed of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - those listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - those listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - those listed of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - those listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel—
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - all those listed were 603,550.

Levites Exempted

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:48 - For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - When 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 if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54 - Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
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