Numbers 1:1-16

Expanded Bible

The People of Israel Are Counted

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Meeting Tent [^Cthe Tabernacle; Ex. 25–31] in the ·Desert [Wilderness] of Sinai. This was on the first day of the second month in the second year after the Israelites left Egypt [Ex. 12:50–51; ^Cone year later]. He said to Moses: ² “You and Aaron must ·count [take a census of; ^Llift the head of] all the ·people of Israel [community/congregation/assembly of the sons/^Tchildren of Israel] by ·families [clans] and family groups, listing the name of each ·man [male]. ³ You and Aaron must count every man twenty years old or older who will serve in the army of Israel, and list them by their divisions [^Clike a military registration]. ⁴ One man from each tribe, the leader of his family, will help you. ⁵ These are the names of the men who will help you:

from the tribe of Reuben—Elizur son of Shedeur;

⁶ from the tribe of Simeon—Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

⁷ from the tribe of Judah—Nahshon son of Amminadab;

⁸ from the tribe of Issachar—Nethanel son of Zuar;

⁹ from the tribe of Zebulun—Eliab son of Helon;

¹⁰ from the tribe of Ephraim son of Joseph—Elishama son of Ammihud;

from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph—Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

¹¹ from the tribe of Benjamin—Abidan son of Gideoni;

¹² from the tribe of Dan—Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

¹³ from the tribe of Asher—Pagiel son of Ocran;

¹⁴ from the tribe of Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel;

¹⁵ from the tribe of Naphtali—Ahira son of Enan.”

¹⁶ These were the men chosen from the ·people [community; congregation; assembly] to be leaders of their tribes, the heads of Israel’s family groups.