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The Census of Israel's Warriors

(cf. 2Sa 24:1–9; 1Ch 21:1–6 )
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:1 - Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - "Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:3 - You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:4 - And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:5 - Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:6 - from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:7 - from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:8 - from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:9 - from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:10 - from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:11 - from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:12 - from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:13 - from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:14 - from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:15 - from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:17 - So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:19 - just as the LORD had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - From the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:44 - These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:45 - All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel's army, were numbered according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

Levites Exempted

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:47 - But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:48 - The LORD had said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:49 - "Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:50 - But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:51 - Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:52 - "The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:53 - But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the LORD's anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:54 - The Israelites did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses - that is what they did.
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