Numbers 2:1-18

¹And the Lord spak to Moises and to Aaron, and seide,

²Alle men of the sones of Israel schulen sette tentis bi the cumpenyes, signes, and baneris, and housis of her kynredis, bi the cumpas of the tabernacle of boond of pees.

³At the est Judas schal sette tentis, bi the cumpenyes of his oost; and Naason, the sone of Amynadab, schal be prince of the sones of Juda;

⁴and al the summe of fiyteris of his kynrede, foure and seuenty thousynde and sixe hundrid.

⁵Men of the lynage of Ysachar settiden tentis bysydis hym, of whiche the prince was Nathanael, the sone of Suar;

⁶and al the noumbre of hise fiyteris, foure and fifti thousynde and foure hundrid.

⁷Eliab, the sone of Elon, was prince of the lynage of Zabulon;

⁸al the oost of fiyteris of his kynrede, seuene and fifti thousynde and foure hundrid.

⁹Alle that weren noumbrid in the castels of Judas, weren an hundrid thousynde `foure scoore thousynde and sixe and foure hundrid; and thei schulen go out the firste bi her cumpanyes.

¹⁰In the castels of the sones of Ruben, at the south coost, Elisur, the sone of Sedeur, schal be prince; and al the oost of hise fiyteris,

¹¹that weren noumbrid, sixe and fourti thousynde and fyue hundrid.

¹²Men of the lynage of Symeon settiden tentis bisidis hym, of whiche the prince was Salamyhel, the sone of Surisaddai; and al the oost of hise fiyteris,

¹³that weren noumbrid, nyne and fifty thousynde and thre hundrid.

¹⁴Eliasaph, sone of Duel, was prince in the lynage of Gad; and al the oost of his fiyteris,

¹⁵that weren noumbrid, fyue and fourti thousynde sixe hundrid and fifti.

¹⁶Alle that weren noumbrid in the castels of Ruben, an hundrid thousynde fifty thousinde and a thousinde foure hundrid and fifty; thei schulen go forth in the secounde place bi her cumpenyes.

¹⁷Sotheli the tabernacle of witnessyng schal be reisid bi the offices of dekenes, and bi the cumpenyes `of hem; as it schal be reisid, so and it schal be takun doun; alle schulen go forth bi her places and ordris.

¹⁸The castels of the sones of Effraym schulen be at the west coost, of whiche the prince was Elisama, the sone of Amyud;