16 These are the men who were (A)called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the (B)heads of [a]divisions of Israel.”

17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18 and they assembled all the congregation on the (C)first day of the second month. Then they registered by (D)ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:16 Lit thousands; or clans

16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders(A) of their ancestral tribes.(B) They were the heads of the clans of Israel.(C)

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.(D) The people registered their ancestry(E) by their clans and families,(F) and the men twenty years old or more(G) were listed by name, one by one,

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