Numbers 1
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
I. Census and Preparation for the Departure from Sinai
Chapter 1
The Census. 1 In the second year after the Israelites’ departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the second month, the Lord said to Moses at the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai: 2 [a]Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites,(A) by clans and ancestral houses, registering by name each male individually. 3 You and Aaron shall enroll in companies all the men in Israel of twenty years or more who are fit for military service.
Moses’ Assistants. 4 With you there shall be a man from each tribe, each the head of his ancestral house. 5 (B)These are the names of those who are to assist you:
from Reuben: Elizur, son of Shedeur;
6 from Simeon: Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai;
7 from Judah:(C) Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
8 from Issachar: Nethanel, son of Zuar;
9 from Zebulun: Eliab, son of Helon;
10 for the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim: Elishama, son of Ammihud; and from Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur;
11 from Benjamin: Abidan, son of Gideoni;
12 from Dan: Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai;
13 from Asher: Pagiel, son of Ochran;
14 from Gad: Eliasaph, son of Reuel;
15 from Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan.
16 (D)These were the elect of the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of the clans of Israel. 17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18 and assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. Every man of twenty years or more then registered individually his name and lineage according to clan and ancestral house, 19 as the Lord had commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.
Count of the Twelve Tribes. 20 Of the descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, registered individually by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 21 those enrolled from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
22 Of the descendants of Simeon, registered individually by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 23 those enrolled from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24 Of the descendants of Gad, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 25 those enrolled from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26 Of the descendants of Judah, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 27 those enrolled from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
28 Of the descendants of Issachar, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 29 those enrolled from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30 Of the descendants of Zebulun, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 31 those enrolled from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32 Of the descendants of Joseph:
Of the descendants of Ephraim, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 33 those enrolled from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.
34 Of the descendants of Manasseh, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 35 those enrolled from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36 Of the descendants of Benjamin, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 37 those enrolled from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38 Of the descendants of Dan, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 39 those enrolled from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40 Of the descendants of Asher, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 41 those enrolled from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.
42 Of the descendants of Naphtali, registered by name and lineage according to their clans and ancestral houses, every male of twenty years or more, everyone fit for military service: 43 those enrolled from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44 It was these who were enrolled, each according to his ancestral house, by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel. 45 The total enrollment of the Israelites of twenty years or more, according to their ancestral houses, everyone fit for military service in Israel— 46 the total enrollment was six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.
Levites Omitted in the Census. 47 Now the Levites were not enrolled(E) by their ancestral tribe with the others.[b] 48 For the Lord had told Moses, 49 The tribe of Levi alone you shall not enroll nor include in the census along with the other Israelites. 50 You are to give the Levites charge of the tabernacle of the covenant with all its equipment and all that belongs to it. It is they who shall carry the tabernacle with all its equipment and who shall be its ministers;(F) and they shall camp all around the tabernacle. 51 When the tabernacle is to move on, the Levites shall take it down; when the tabernacle is to be pitched, it is the Levites who shall set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near[c] it shall be put to death.(G) 52 The other Israelites shall camp according to their companies, each in their own divisional camps,(H) 53 but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the covenant to ensure that God’s wrath will not fall upon the Israelite community. The Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the covenant.(I) 54 The Israelites complied; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Footnotes
- 1:2 All Israel was divided into tribes, each tribe into clans, and each clan into ancestral houses.
- 1:47 The Levites were not enrolled in this census, which was principally for military purposes, but a separate census was made of them. Cf. 3:15–16, 39.
- 1:51 Comes near: here and in 3:10, 38; 17:5; 18:4, 7 the Hebrew word rendered “comes near” is very nearly a technical term for someone who intrudes upon or violates a space set apart as holy and for which they have not been qualified by priesthood.
Numbers 1
Revised Geneva Translation
1 Again, the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “Take the sum of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, after their families and households of their fathers, with the number of their names—all the males, man by man,
3 “from twenty years old and above—all that go forth to the war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them throughout their armies.
4 “And with you shall be men of every tribe, such as are the heads of the House of their fathers.
5 “And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;
6 “of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7 “of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8 “of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9 “of Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
10 “(of the children of Joseph) of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur;
11 “of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12 “of Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai;
13 “of Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ocran;
14 “of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
15 “of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.”
16 These were famous in the Congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads over thousands in Israel.
17 Then Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by name.
18 And they called all the Congregation together on the first of the second month, who declared their kindred by their families, by the Houses of their fathers, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, man by man.
19 As the LORD had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 So were the sons of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers, according to the number of names, man by man, every male from twenty years old and above, as many as went forth to war.
21 The number of those of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.
22 Of the sons of Simeon, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—the sum of them, by the number of names, man by man, every male from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
23 the sum of those of the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24 Of the sons of Gad, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
25 the number of those of the tribe of Gad was forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26 Of the sons of Judah, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
27 the number of those of the tribe of Judah was seventy-four thousand six hundred.
28 Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
29 the number of those of the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30 Of the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
31 the number of those of the tribe of Zebulun was fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32 Of the sons of Joseph (namely of the sons of Ephraim), by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
33 the number of those of the tribe of Ephraim was forty thousand five hundred.
34 Of the sons of Manasseh, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
35 the number of those of the tribe of Manasseh was thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36 Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
37 the number of those of the tribe of Benjamin was thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38 Of the sons of Dan, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
39 the number of those of the tribe of Dan was sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40 Of the sons of Asher, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went forth to war—
41 the number of those of the tribe of Asher was forty-one thousand five hundred.
42 Of the children of Naphtali, by their generations, by their families, by the Houses of their fathers—according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all that went to the war—
43 the number of those of the tribe of Naphtali was fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44 These are the sums which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the Princes of Israel (twelve men, each representing the House of their fathers).
45 So was all the sum of the sons of Israel, by the Houses of their fathers, from twenty years old and above, all that went to the war in Israel.
46 And they were altogether in number six hundred-three thousand five hundred fifty.
47 But the Levites, after the tribes of their fathers, were not included among them.
48 For the LORD had spoken to Moses, and said,
49 “Only you shall not include the tribe of Levi, nor take a census of them among the children of Israel.
50 “But you shall appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all of its instruments, and over all things that belong to it. They shall bear the Tabernacle and all its instruments, and shall minister in it, and shall dwell all around the Tabernacle.
51 “And when the Tabernacle goes forth, the Levites shall take it down. And when the Tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. For the stranger who comes near shall be killed.
52 “Also, the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man in his own camp, and every man under his own standard, throughout their armies.
53 “But the Levites shall pitch all around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, lest vengeance come upon the Congregation of the children of Israel. And the Levites shall take charge of the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
54 So the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD had Commanded Moses. So did they.
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