Numbers 1:1-16

¹And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,

²Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

³All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.

⁴And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.

⁵These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

⁶From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

⁷From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

⁸From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;

⁹From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

¹⁰Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

¹¹From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

¹²From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

¹³From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;

¹⁴From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;

¹⁵From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

¹⁶These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.