The Census of Israel’s Warriors

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Yahweh had spoken to Moses, saying,

Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all which Yahweh had commanded Moses, so they did.

Israel Camped by Their Standards

Now Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

The Levites, however, were not numbered among the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, every one by his family according to his father’s household.

Priests and Levites

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

But Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the lifetime of their father Aaron.

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.”

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

So Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, just as he had been commanded.

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of Yahweh by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

Redemption of the Firstborn

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.

And you shall take the Levites for Me, I am Yahweh, instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the sons of Israel.”

So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the sons of Israel, just as Yahweh had commanded him;

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel and the cattle of the Levites. And the Levites shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.

Then Moses gave the money of the redemption price to Aaron and to his sons, at the command of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Duties of the Kohathites

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Duties of the Gershonites

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.