Numbers 1:1-18

¹And the Lord spake to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the bond of peace, 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,