Numbers 2–3

2And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ^2aEvery man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: ^†bfar off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

³And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and ^cNahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah. ⁴And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. ⁵And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar. ⁶And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. ⁷Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun. ⁸And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. ⁹All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. ^dThese shall first set forth.

¹⁰On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur. ¹¹And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. ¹²And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. ¹³And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. ¹⁴Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of ^||Reuel. ¹⁵And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. ^eAnd they shall set forth in the second rank.

^17fThen the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in ^ghis place by their standards.

¹⁸On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. ¹⁹And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. ²⁰And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. ²¹And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. ²²Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. ²³And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. ²⁴All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. ^hAnd they shall go forward in the third rank.

²⁵The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. ²⁶And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. ²⁷And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran. ²⁸And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. ²⁹Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. ³⁰And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. ³¹All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. ⁱThey shall go hindmost with their standards.

³²These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were ^ksix hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ³³But ^lthe Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses. ³⁴And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: ^mso they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

3These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the Lord spake with Moses in mount Sinai. ²And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; ^aNadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ³These are the names of the sons of Aaron, ^bthe priests which were anointed, ^†whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office. ^4cAnd Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

⁵And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^6dBring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. ⁷And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, ^eto do the service of the tabernacle. ⁸And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, ^eto do the service of the tabernacle. ⁹And ^fthou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. ¹⁰And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, ^gand they shall wait on their priest’s office: ^hand the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. ¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹²And I, behold, ⁱI have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; ¹³Because ^kall the firstborn are mine; ^lfor on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the Lord.

¹⁴And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, ¹⁵Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: ^mevery male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. ¹⁶And Moses numbered them according to the ^†word of the Lord, as he was commanded. ¹⁷ⁿAnd these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; ^oLibni, and ^oShimei. ¹⁹And the sons of Kohath by their families; ^pAmram, and ^pIzehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ²⁰And the sons of Merari by their families; ^qMahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

²¹Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. ²²Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. ^23rThe families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. ²⁴And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael. ²⁵And ^sthe charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be ^tthe tabernacle, and ^uthe tent, ^xthe covering thereof, and ^ythe hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, ²⁶And ^zthe hangings of the court, and ^athe curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and ^bthe cords of it for all the service thereof.

^27cAnd of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the ^cIzeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. ²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch ^don the side of the tabernacle southward. ³⁰And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be ^eElizaphan the son of Uzziel. ³¹And their charge shall be ^fthe ark, and ^gthe table, and ^hthe candlestick, and ⁱthe altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and ^kthe hanging, and all the service thereof. ³²And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

³³Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari. ³⁴And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. ³⁵And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward. ³⁶And ^†under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be ^lthe boards of the tabernacle, and ^mthe bars thereof, and ⁿthe pillars thereof, and ^othe sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto, ³⁷And ^pthe pillars of the court round about, and ^ptheir sockets, and ^qtheir pins, and ^rtheir cords.

³⁸But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, ^skeeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and ^tthe stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. ³⁹All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses…