Numbers 1:26-54

²⁶From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

²⁷those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74, 600.

²⁸From the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

²⁹those registered to the tribe of Issachar numbered 54, 400.

³⁰From the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

³¹those registered to the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57, 400.

³²From the sons of Joseph: From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

³³those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40, 500.

³⁴And from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

³⁵those registered to the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32, 200.

³⁶From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

³⁷those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35, 400.

³⁸From the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

³⁹those registered to the tribe of Dan numbered 62, 700.

⁴⁰From the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

⁴¹those registered to the tribe of Asher numbered 41, 500.

⁴²From the sons of Naphtali, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

⁴³those registered to the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53, 400.

⁴⁴These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.

⁴⁵So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.

⁴⁶And all those counted totaled 603, 550.

⁴⁷The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

⁴⁸For the LORD had said to Moses:

⁴⁹“Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.

⁵⁰Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

⁵¹Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

⁵²The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

⁵³But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

⁵⁴Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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