Numbers 1

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Ægypt, saying:

²Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel by their kindreds, & houses, and the names of every one, whatsoever of the male sex,

³from the twentieth year and upward, of all the strong men of Israel, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.

⁴And there shall be with you the Princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,

⁵whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elizur the son of Sedeur.

⁶Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

⁷Of Juda, Nahasson, the son of Aminadab.

⁸Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.

⁹Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.

¹⁰And of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud. Of Manasses, Gamaliel, the son of Phadassur.

¹¹Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.

¹²Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

¹³Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.

¹⁴Of Gad, Eliazaph the son of Duel.

¹⁵Of Nephthali, Ahira the son of Enan.

¹⁶These are the most noble Princes of the multitude by their tribes & kindreds, and the heads of the host of Israel:

¹⁷whom Moyses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:

¹⁸and assembled them the first day of the second month, reckoning them by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from the twentieth year and upward,

¹⁹as our Lord had commanded Moyses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.

²⁰Of Ruben the first begotten of Israel, by their generations and families and houses, and names of every head, all that is of the male sex, from the twentieth year & upward, of them that go forth to war,

²¹forty six thousand five hundred.

²²Of the sons of Simeon by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names & heads of every one, all that is of the male sex from the twentieth year and upward, of them that go forth to war,

²³fifty nine thousand three hundred.

²⁴Of the sons of Gad, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that went forth to war,

²⁵forty five thousand six hundred fifty.

²⁶Of the sons of Juda by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,

²⁷were reckoned seventy four thousand six hundred.

²⁸Of the sons of Issachar, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year & upward, all that went forth to war,

²⁹were reckoned fifty four thousand four hundred.

³⁰Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations, & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,

³¹fifty seven thousand four hundred.

³²Of the sons of Joseph, namely of the sons of Ephraim by the generations, families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one, from the twentieth year & upward, all that could go forth to war,

³³forty thousand five hundred.

³⁴Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,

³⁵thirty two thousand two hundred.

³⁶Of the sons of Benjamin by the generations & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,

³⁷thirty five thousand four hundred.

³⁸Of the sons of Dan, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,

³⁹sixty two thousand seven hundred.

⁴⁰Of the sons of Aser, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,

⁴¹forty thousand and a thousand five hundred.

⁴²Of the sons of Nephthali, by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,

⁴³fifty three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴These are they, whom Moyses and Aaron numbered, and the twelve Princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.

⁴⁵And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from the twentieth year and upward, that could go to war,

⁴⁶were six hundred three thousand men five hundred fifty.

⁴⁷But the Levites in the tribe of their families were not numbered with them.

⁴⁸And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

⁴⁹Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put the sum of them with the children of Israel:

⁵⁰but appoint them over the tabernacle of testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall be in the ministry, and shall pitch round about the tabernacle.

⁵¹When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, he shall be slain.

⁵²And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and host.

⁵³Moreover the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle.

⁵⁴The children of Israel thereof did according to all things which our Lord had commanded Moyses.