1Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out] in the wilderness of Sinai [Thorn], in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month (Iyar ·Light / I Am God your healer, 2·), in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], saying,

2“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails], by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel [God prevails]. You and Aaron [Light-bringer] shall count them by their divisions.

4With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.

5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben [See, a son!]: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6Of Simeon [Hearing]: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai [My rock almighty].

7Of Judah [Praised]: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

8Of Issachar [Hire, Reward]: Nethanel the son of Zuar.

9Of Zebulun [Living together]: Eliab the son of Helon.

10Of the children of Joseph [May he add]: Of Ephraim [Fruit]: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh [Causing to forget]: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

11Of Benjamin [Son of right hand, Son of south]: Abidan the son of Gideoni.

12Of Dan [He judged]: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

13Of Asher [Happy]: Pagiel the son of Ochran.

14Of Gad [Good fortune]: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

15Of Naphtali [My wrestling]: Ahira the son of Enan.”

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 [God prevails].

17Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer] took these men who are mentioned by name.

18They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month (Iyar ·Light / I Am God your healer, 2·); 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.

19As Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out], so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai [Thorn]. (2)

20The children of Reuben [See, a son!], Israel [God prevails]’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;

21those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben [See, a son!], were forty-six thousand five hundred.

22Of the children of Simeon [Hearing], 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;

23those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon [Hearing], were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24Of the children of Gad [Good fortune], 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;

25those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad [Good fortune], were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

26Of the children of Judah [Praised], 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;

27those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah [Praised], were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

28Of the children of Issachar [Hire, Reward], 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;

29those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Issachar [Hire, Reward], were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

30Of the children of Zebulun [Living together], 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;

31those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun [Living together], were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

32Of the children of Joseph [May he add], of the children of Ephraim [Fruit], 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;

33those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim [Fruit], were forty thousand five hundred.

34Of the children of Manasseh [Causing to forget], 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;

35those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh [Causing to forget], were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

36Of the children of Benjamin [Son of right hand, Son of south], 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;

37those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Benjamin [Son of right hand, Son of south], were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

38Of the children of Dan [He judged], 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;

39those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan [He judged], were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

40Of the children of Asher [Happy], 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;

41those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher [Happy], were forty-one thousand five hundred.

42Of the children of Naphtali [My wrestling], 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;

43those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali [My wrestling], were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44These are those who were counted, whom Moses [Drawn out] and Aaron [Light-bringer] counted, and the princes of Israel [God prevails], being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house.

45So all those who were counted of the children of Israel [God prevails] by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel [God prevails];

46even all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

47But the Levites [Descendants of United with] after the tribe of their fathers was not counted among them.

48For Adonai spoke to Moses [Drawn out], saying,

49“Only the tribe of Levi [United with] you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel [God prevails];

50but appoint the Levites [Descendants of United with] 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.

51When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites [Descendants of United with] shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites [Descendants of United with] shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

52The children of Israel [God prevails] shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

53But the Levites [Descendants of United with] shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel [God prevails]: and the Levites [Descendants of United with] shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”

54Thus the children of Israel [God prevails] did. According to all that Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out], so they did.