“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.

and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

as the Lord commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:

The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law.”

The Israelites did all this just as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Levites, however, were not counted along with the other Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.

So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.

They are to perform duties for him and for the whole community at the tent of meeting by doing the work of the tabernacle.

So Moses counted them, as he was commanded by the word of the Lord.

The total number of Levites counted at the Lord’s command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.

So Moses counted all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the Lord commanded him.

Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, as he was commanded by the word of the Lord.

Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

“After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.

So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.

Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

The Numbering of the Levite Clans

Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families.

This was the total of all those in the Kohathite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

This was the total of those in the Gershonite clans who served at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the Lord’s command.

This was the total of those in the Merarite clans. Moses and Aaron counted them according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

At the Lord’s command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry. Thus they were counted, as the Lord commanded Moses.

“Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.

and must confess the sin they have committed. They must make full restitution for the wrong they have done, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the person they have wronged.