Numbers 1

Assembly and Ancestry Numbers 1:17–19

¹⁷Verse 17. Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. ¹⁸Verse 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. ¹⁹Verse 19. As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Tribal Counts Numbers 1:20–46

²⁰Verse 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; ²¹Verse 21. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. ²²Verse 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;

²³Verse 23. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ²⁴Verse 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; ²⁵Verse 25. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. ²⁶Verse 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;

²⁷Verse 27. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. ²⁸Verse 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; ²⁹Verse 29. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred. ³⁰Verse 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;

³¹Verse 31. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ³²Verse 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; ³³Verse 33. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴Verse 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;

³⁵Verse 35. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. ³⁶Verse 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; ³⁷Verse 37. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. ³⁸Verse 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;

³⁹Verse 39. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ⁴⁰Verse 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; ⁴¹Verse 41. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. ⁴²Verse 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;

⁴³Verse 43. those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴Verse 44. These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house. ⁴⁵Verse 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; ⁴⁶Verse 46. even all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

Exclusion of the Levites Numbers 1:47–54

⁴⁷Verse 47. But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them. ⁴⁸Verse 48. For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹Verse 49. “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel; ⁵⁰Verse 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. ⁵¹Verse 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.

⁵²Verse 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. ⁵³Verse 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: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.” ⁵⁴Verse 54. Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.