Numbers 1:1-5

¹Yahweh spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai. This happened on the first day of the second month during the second year after the people of Israel had come out from the land of Egypt. Yahweh said,

²“Conduct a census of all the men of Israel in each clan, in their fathers' families. Count them by name. Count every male, each man

³who is twenty years old or older. Count all who can fight as soldiers for Israel. You and Aaron must record the number of men in their armed groups.

⁴A man from each tribe, a clan head, must serve with you as his tribe's leader. Each leader must lead the men who will fight for his tribe.

⁵These are the names of the leaders who must fight with you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;