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, (And the Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai Desert, in the Tabernacle of the Covenant, that is, the Tabernacle of the Witnessing, on the first day of the second month, in the second 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 families, and all their names each by themselves, whatever thing of male kind, (Take ye the sum, or the number, of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by their kindreds, and families, and list, or register, all their names, whoever is a male,)

³from the twentieth year and above, of all the strong men of Israel, (or from twenty years of age and older, of all the strong men in Israel); and thou and Aaron shall number them by their companies.

⁴And the princes of the lineages (or And the leaders of the tribes), and of the families, in their kindreds, shall be with you,

⁵of which princes, these be the names, (or of which leaders, 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 host(s) of Israel, (These were the noblest leaders of the multitude, by their tribes, and kindreds, and the heads of the armies of Israel,)

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

¹⁸And they gathered (them together) in the first day of the second month, and they told them, (or and they totalled them), by kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of each by themselves, from the twentieth year and above, (And they gathered them together on the first day of the second month, and they listed, or they registered, them by their kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and their names, from twenty years of age and older,)