The Census

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting^(A) in the Desert of Sinai^(B) on the first day of the second month^(C) of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.^(D) He said:

¹⁷ Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, ¹⁸ and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month.^(A) The people registered their ancestry^(B) by their clans and families,^(C) and the men twenty years old or more^(D) were listed by name, one by one, ¹⁹ as the Lord commanded Moses. And so he counted^(E) them in the Desert of Sinai:

⁴⁴ These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron^(A) and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.

⁴⁸ The Lord had said to Moses:

⁵⁴ The Israelites did all this just as the Lord commanded Moses.