1And the Lord spake to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the bond of peace ⁰, in the first day of the second month, in the tother year of their going out of Egypt, and said,

2Take ye the sum or the number of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their kindreds, and meines, and all their names each by them-selves, whatever thing of male kind,

3from the twentieth year and above, of all the strong men of Israel; and thou and Aaron shall number them by their companies.

4And the princes of the lineages, and of the meines, in their kindreds, shall be with you,

5of which princes, these be the names; of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

6of Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

7of Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

8of Issachar, Nethaneel, the son of Zuar;

9of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

10soothly of the sons of Joseph; of Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur;

11of Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

12of Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai;

13of Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ocran;

14of Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Deuel;

15of Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

16These were the noblest princes of the multitude, by their lineages, and kindreds, and the heads of the hosts of Israel,

17the which princes Moses and Aaron took, with all the multitude of the common people.

18And they gathered in the first day of the second month, and they told [or numbered] them by kindreds, and houses, and meines, and heads, and names of each by themselves, from the twentieth year and above,

19as the Lord commanded to Moses; [and they be numbered in the desert of Sinai].

20And of Reuben, the first begotten of Israel, were numbered, in the desert of Sinai, [or Of Reuben, the first begotten of Israel], by their generations, and meines, and houses, and by the names of all the heads, all thing that is of male kind, from twenty years and above, of men going forth to battle,

21six and forty thousand and five hundred.

22Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names and heads of all, all that is of male kind, from twenty years and above, of men going forth to battle,

23nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

24Of the sons of Gad, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that went forth to battle,

25five and forty thousand six hundred and fifty.

26Of the sons of Judah, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go [forth] to battles,

27were numbered four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

28Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that went forth to battles,

29were numbered four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

30Of the sons of Zebulun, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

31seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

32Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

33forty thousand and five hundred.

34Forsooth of the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

35two and thirty thousand and two hundred.

36Of the sons of Benjamin, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

37five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

38Of the sons of Dan, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kin-dreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

39two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

40Of the sons of Asher, by gener-ations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

41forty thousand and a thousand and five hundred.

42Of the sons of Naphtali, by generations, and meines, and houses of their kindreds, were numbered, by the names of all, from twenty years and above, all men that might go forth to battles,

43three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

44These men it be, which Moses and Aaron and the twelve princes of Israel numbered, each by their houses and kindreds.

45And all men of the sons of Israel, by their houses, and meines, from twenty years and above, that might go forth to battles,

46were all together six hundred thousand and three thousand men, and five hundred and fifty.

47Soothly the deacons ¹in the lineage of their meines were not numbered with them.

48And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

49Do not thou number the lineage of Levi, neither set thou the sum of them with the sons of Israel;

50but thou shalt ordain them upon the tabernacle of witnessing, and upon all the vessels thereof, and upon what-ever thing pertaineth to [the] cere-monies, either sacrifices. They shall bear the tabernacle, and all the appur-tenances thereof, and they shall be in the service of it, and they shall set [their] tents by compass of the taber-nacle.

51When men shall go forth, or be removed, the deacons shall take down the tabernacle; when the tents shall be set, they shall set it up. Whoever of strangers nigheth, he shall be slain.

52Soothly the sons of Israel shall set tents, each man by his companies, and his fellowships, and his host;

53forsooth the deacons shall set their tents by compass of the tabernacle, lest indignation be made on the multitude of the sons of Israel; and they shall wake [or watch] in the keepings of the tabernacle of witnessing.

54Therefore the sons of Israel did by all things which the Lord commanded to Moses.