Numbers 1:1-10

1Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on 1the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2“2Take a 3census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head

3from 4twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall 5number them by their armies.

4With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, 6each one head of his father’s household.

5These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: 7of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

6of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

7of Judah, 8Nahshon the son of Amminadab;

8of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;

9of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;

10of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;