Numbers 1:1-2

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying:

² Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,