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Numbers 1:3-43

3from 1twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall 2count them by their armies. 4With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, 3each one head of his father’s household. 5These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: 4of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; 6of the tribe of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; 7of the tribe of Judah, 5Nahshon 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; 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 6Deuel; 15of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan. 16These are the men who were 7called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the 8heads of 9divisions of Israel.”

17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18and they assembled all the congregation on the 10first day of the second month. Then they registered by 11ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head, 19just as 12the Lord had commanded Moses. So he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

2013Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 21their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

2214Of the sons of Simeon, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, 15whoever was able to go to war, 23their numbered men of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.

2416Of the sons of Gad, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 25their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

2617Of the sons of Judah, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 27their numbered men of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

2818Of the sons of Issachar, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 29their numbered men of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

3019Of the sons of Zebulun, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 31their numbered men of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

3220Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 33their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

3421Of the sons of Manasseh, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 35their numbered men of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

3622Of the sons of Benjamin, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 37their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

3823Of the sons of Dan, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 39their numbered men of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

4024Of the sons of Asher, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 41their numbered men of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

4225Of the sons of Naphtali, their descendants by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war, 43their numbered men of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

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Notes

  1. 1. Numbers 1:3 Ex 30:14; 38:26 ↩
  2. 2. Numbers 1:3 Lit muster, and so throughout the ch ↩
  3. 3. Numbers 1:4 Ex 18:21, 25; Num 1:16; Deut 1:15 ↩
  4. 4. Numbers 1:5 Gen 29:32; Ex 1:2; Deut 33:6; Rev 7:5 ↩
  5. 5. Numbers 1:7 Ruth 4:20; 1 Chr 2:10; Luke 3:32 ↩
  6. 6. Numbers 1:14 Num 2:14 ↩
  7. 7. Numbers 1:16 Ex 18:21; Num 7:2; 16:2; 26:9 ↩
  8. 8. Numbers 1:16 Ex 18:25 ↩
  9. 9. Numbers 1:16 Lit thousands; or clans ↩
  10. 10. Numbers 1:18 Num 1:1 ↩
  11. 11. Numbers 1:18 Ezra 2:59; Heb 7:3 ↩
  12. 12. Numbers 1:19 2 Sam 24:1 ↩
  13. 13. Numbers 1:20 Num 26:5-7 ↩
  14. 14. Numbers 1:22 Num 26:12-14 ↩
  15. 15. Numbers 1:22 Ps 144:1 ↩
  16. 16. Numbers 1:24 Gen 30:11; Num 26:15-18; Josh 4:12; Jer 49:1 ↩
  17. 17. Numbers 1:26 Gen 29:35; Num 26:19-22; 2 Sam 24:9; Ps 78:68; Matt 1:2 ↩
  18. 18. Numbers 1:28 Num 26:23-25 ↩
  19. 19. Numbers 1:30 Num 26:26, 27 ↩
  20. 20. Numbers 1:32 Num 26:35-37; Deut 33:13-17; Jer 7:15; Obad 19 ↩
  21. 21. Numbers 1:34 Num 26:28-34 ↩
  22. 22. Numbers 1:36 Gen 49:27; Num 26:38-41; 2 Chr 17:17; Rev 7:8 ↩
  23. 23. Numbers 1:38 Gen 30:6; 46:23; Num 2:25; 26:42, 43 ↩
  24. 24. Numbers 1:40 Num 26:44-47 ↩
  25. 25. Numbers 1:42 Num 26:48-50 ↩

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