The Census of Israel’s Warriors

1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on ^(A)the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, ² “^(B)Take a ^[a]census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head ³ from ^(C)twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall ^[b]number them by their armies. ⁴ With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, ^(D)each one head of his father’s household.

¹⁷ So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, ¹⁸ and they assembled all the congregation together on the ^(A)first of the second month. Then they registered by ^(B)ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head, ¹⁹ just as ^(C)the Lord had commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.