Numbers 1:1-46

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,

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.