Numbers [In the desert] 1:1-7

¹Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out in the wilderness of Sinai Thorn, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt Abode of slavery, saying,

²“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel God prevails, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

³from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel God prevails. You and Aaron Light-bringer shall count them by their divisions.

⁴With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.

⁵These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben See, a son!: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

⁶Of Simeon Hearing: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai My rock almighty.

⁷Of Judah Praised: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.