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The Census
The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said:
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You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.
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These are the names of the men who are to assist you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
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These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
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Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified,
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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,
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From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Gad: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Judah: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Issachar: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Zebulun: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Manasseh: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Benjamin: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Dan: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Asher: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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From the descendants of Naphtali: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
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“The Israelites are to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.”
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All the men assigned to the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, number 186,400. They will set out first.
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All the men assigned to the camp of Reuben, according to their divisions, number 151,450. They will set out second.
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Then the tent of meeting and the camp of the Levites will set out in the middle of the camps. They will set out in the same order as they encamp, each in their own place under their standard.
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All the men assigned to the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, number 108,100. They will set out third.
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All the men assigned to the camp of Dan number 157,600. They will set out last, under their standards.
