As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Thus the children of Israel did; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they did.

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

Thus the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; so they camped by their standards and so they broke camp, each one by his family, according to their fathers’ houses.

Census of the Levites Commanded

Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying:

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, by their families, all the males from a month old and above, were twenty-two thousand.

So Moses numbered all the firstborn among the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded him.

And Moses gave their redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

These were the ones who were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

These are the ones who were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all who might serve in the tabernacle of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.

According to the commandment of the Lord they were numbered by the hand of Moses, each according to his service and according to his task; thus were they numbered by him, as the Lord commanded Moses.

“Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

And Aaron did so; he arranged the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Thus Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Israel did to the Levites; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

After that the Levites went in to do their work in the tabernacle of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

At the command of the Lord the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud stayed above the tabernacle they remained encamped.

So it was, when the cloud was above the tabernacle a few days: according to the command of the Lord they would remain encamped, and according to the command of the Lord they would journey.

At the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at the command of the Lord they journeyed; they kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

So they started out for the first time according to the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

And Moses said, “Now why do you transgress the command of the Lord? For this will not succeed.

Laws Concerning Unintentional Sin

‘If you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments which the Lord has spoken to Moses—