The Fourth Book of Moses,
Commonly Called
Numbers
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.