Numbers 1:20-53

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.

⁴⁷Soothly the deacons in the lineage of their meines were not numbered with them.

⁴⁸And the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

⁴⁹Do not thou number the lineage of Levi, neither set thou the sum of them with the sons of Israel;

⁵⁰but thou shalt ordain them upon the tabernacle of witnessing, and upon all the vessels thereof, and upon what-ever thing pertaineth to the cere-monies, either sacrifices. They shall bear the tabernacle, and all the appur-tenances thereof, and they shall be in the service of it, and they shall set their tents by compass of the taber-nacle.

⁵¹When men shall go forth, or be removed, the deacons shall take down the tabernacle; when the tents shall be set, they shall set it up. Whoever of strangers nigheth, he shall be slain.

⁵²Soothly the sons of Israel shall set tents, each man by his companies, and his fellowships, and his host;

⁵³forsooth the deacons shall set their tents by compass of the tabernacle, lest indignation be made on the multitude of the sons of Israel; and they shall wake or watch in the keepings of the tabernacle of witnessing.