Numbers 1:1-18

¹And the Lord spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after their going out of the land of Egypt, saying,

²Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, every male according to their polls;

³From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: these shall ye number according to their armies, thou and Aaron.

⁴And with you there shall be one man each of every tribe; a man who is the head of his family division.

⁵And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you; of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

⁶Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

⁷Of Judah: Nachshon the son of 'Amminadab.

⁸Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.

⁹Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Chelon.

¹⁰Of the children of Joseph, of Ephraim: Elishama the son of 'Ammihud; of Menasseh: Gamliel the son of Pedahzur.

¹¹Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gidoni.

¹²Of Dan: Achiezer the son of 'Ammishaddai.

¹³Of Asher: Pagiel the son of 'Ochran.

¹⁴Of Gad: Elyassaph the son of Deuel.

¹⁵Of Naphtali: Achira the son of 'Enan.

¹⁶These were the selected of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; the heads of the thousands of Israel were they.

¹⁷And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by name:

¹⁸And all the congregation they assembled together on the first day of the second month, and they were enrolled in the lists of their pedigrees after their families, by the descent from their fathers, by numbering the names, from twenty years old and upward, according to their polls.