Numbers 1

1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,Cross-references: Ex 19:1 · Ex 25:22 · Ex 40:2 · Ex 40:17 · Lev 1:1 · Lev 27:34 · +3 more

2“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,Cross-references: Gen 49:1 · Ex 1:1 · Ex 6:14 · Ex 30:12 · Ex 38:26 · Num 1:18 · +7 more

3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.Cross-references: Ex 12:17 · Ex 30:14 · Num 14:29 · Num 26:2 · Num 32:11 · Num 33:1 · +5 more

4With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house.Cross-references: Ex 18:21 · Ex 18:25 · Num 1:16 · Num 2:3 · Num 7:10 · Num 10:14 · +8 more

5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.Cross-references: Gen 29:32 · Gen 30:5 · Gen 35:17 · Gen 46:8 · Gen 49:1 · Ex 1:2 · +5 more

6Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.Cross-references: Num 2:12 · Num 7:36

7Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.Cross-references: Num 2:3 · Num 7:12 · Num 10:14 · Ruth 4:18 · Ruth 4:20 · 1Chr 2:10 · +2 more

8Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.Cross-references: Num 2:5 · Num 7:18 · Num 10:15

9Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.Cross-references: Num 2:7 · Num 7:24 · Num 10:16

10Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.Cross-references: Num 2:18 · Num 2:20 · Num 7:48 · Num 7:54 · Num 10:22 · 1Chr 7:26

11Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.Cross-references: Num 2:22 · Num 7:60 · Num 10:24

12Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.Cross-references: Num 2:25 · Num 7:66 · Num 10:25

13Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.Cross-references: Num 2:27 · Num 7:72 · Num 10:26

14Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.Cross-references: Num 2:14 · Num 7:42 · Num 10:20

15Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”Cross-references: Num 2:29 · Num 7:78 · Num 10:27

16These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 18:21 · Ex 18:25 · Num 1:4 · Num 2:3 · Num 7:2 · Num 7:10 · +10 more

17Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.Cross-references: Num 1:5 · John 10:3 · Rev 7:4

18They 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.Cross-references: Num 1:1 · Ezra 2:59 · Neh 7:61 · Heb 7:3 · Heb 7:6

19As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.Cross-references: Num 1:2 · Num 26:1 · 2Sam 24:1

20The 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:Cross-references: Gen 29:32 · Gen 46:9 · Gen 49:3 · Num 2:10 · Num 26:5 · 1Chr 5:1

21those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:10 · Num 26:7

22Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 29:33 · Gen 34:25 · Gen 42:24 · Gen 46:10 · Gen 49:5 · Num 2:12 · +1 more

23those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:13 · Num 25:8 · Num 25:14 · Num 26:14

24Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:10 · Gen 46:16 · Gen 49:19 · Num 2:14 · Num 26:15

25those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.Cross-references: Num 2:15 · Num 26:18

26Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 29:35 · Gen 46:12 · Gen 49:8 · Num 2:3 · Num 26:19 · 2Sam 24:9 · +3 more

27those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:3 · Num 26:22 · 2Sam 24:9 · 2Chr 17:14

28Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:18 · Gen 46:13 · Gen 49:14 · Num 2:5 · Num 23:23 · Num 26:23

29those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:6 · Num 26:25

30Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:20 · Gen 46:14 · Gen 49:13 · Num 2:7 · Num 26:26

31those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:8 · Num 26:27

32Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:24 · Gen 37:1 · Gen 39:1 · Gen 46:20 · Gen 48:1 · Gen 49:22 · +3 more

33those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.Cross-references: Gen 48:5 · Num 2:19 · Num 26:37 · Deut 33:17

34Of 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:Cross-references: Num 26:28

35those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.Cross-references: Gen 48:19 · Num 2:21 · Num 26:34

36Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 35:16 · Gen 44:20 · Gen 46:21 · Gen 49:27 · Num 26:38 · 2Chr 17:17 · +1 more

37those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:23 · Num 26:41 · Judg 20:44 · 2Chr 17:17

38Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:5 · Gen 46:23 · Gen 49:16 · Num 26:42

39those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:26 · Num 26:43

40Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:12 · Gen 46:27 · Gen 49:20 · Num 26:44

41those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:28 · Num 26:47

42Of 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:Cross-references: Gen 30:7 · Gen 46:24 · Gen 49:21 · Num 26:48

43those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.Cross-references: Num 2:30 · Num 26:50

44These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.Cross-references: Num 1:2 · Num 26:64

45So 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—

46all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 17:6 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 26:3 · +15 more

47But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.Cross-references: Num 1:3 · Num 1:50 · Num 2:33 · Num 3:1 · Num 8:1 · Num 26:57 · +2 more

48For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

49“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;Cross-references: Num 2:33 · Num 26:62

50but 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.Cross-references: Ex 31:18 · Ex 32:26 · Ex 38:21 · Num 1:53 · Num 2:17 · Num 3:1 · +16 more

51When 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.Cross-references: Lev 22:10 · Num 3:10 · Num 3:38 · Num 4:1 · Num 10:11 · Num 10:17 · +4 more

52The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.Cross-references: Num 2:2 · Num 2:34 · Num 10:1 · Num 24:2

53But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”Cross-references: Lev 10:6 · Num 1:50 · Num 3:7 · Num 3:38 · Num 8:19 · Num 8:24 · +12 more

54Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.Cross-references: Ex 23:21 · Ex 39:32 · Ex 39:43 · Ex 40:16 · Ex 40:32 · Num 2:34 · +3 more