Numbers 1:17–46

¹⁷So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,^{j 18}and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more, ¹⁹just as the Lord commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

²⁰The descendants of Reuben,^k the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²¹those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

²²The descendants of Simeon:^l according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, those registered counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²³those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

²⁴The descendants of Gad:^m according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²⁵those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

²⁶The descendants of Judah:ⁿ according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²⁷those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

²⁸The descendants of Issachar:^o according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²⁹those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

³⁰The descendants of Zebulun:^p according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ³¹those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

³²The descendants of Joseph:^a

The descendants of Ephraim:^b according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ³³those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

³⁴The descendants of Manasseh:^c according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ³⁵those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

³⁶The descendants of Benjamin:^d according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ³⁷those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

³⁸The descendants of Dan:^e according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ³⁹those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

⁴⁰The descendants of Asher:^f according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ⁴¹those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

⁴²The descendants of Naphtali:^g according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ⁴³those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

⁴⁴These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral family. ⁴⁵So all the Israelites twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral families. ⁴⁶All those registered numbered 603,550.^h