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          DASV: Numbers 1    

1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the
Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the
second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the Israelites,
by their clans and families, according to the number of names
of each individual male;
3 twenty years old and older, all in Israel who are able to go to war.
You and Aaron are to number them by their divisions.
4 One man from each tribe will assist you; each one the head
of his family.
5 These are the names of the men who will assist you:
       from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6        from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7        from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8        from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9        from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10        from the sons of Joseph:
          from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud;
          from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11        from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12        from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;
13        from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran;
14        from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
15        from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan."
16 These are the ones chosen from the congregation,
the leaders of the tribes of their fathers; they were
the heads of the thousands of Israel.
17 So Moses and Aaron took these men that were mentioned
explicitly by name,
18 and they assembled the whole congregation together
on the first day of the second month. Then they recorded
their ancestry by their families and clans, according to
the number of the names, from twenty years old and older
individually,
19 just as the LORD commanded Moses. So he numbered them
in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 The descendants of Reuben, Israel's first-born,
their generations, by their clans and families, those who
were listed according to the number of the names, individually,
every male from twenty years old and older, all who were
able to go to war:
21 those who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
22 The descendants of Simeon, their generations, by their clans
and families, those who were listed according to the number
of the names, individually, every male from twenty years old
and older, all who were able to go to war:
23 those who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
24 The descendants of Gad, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
25 those who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.
26 The descendants of Judah, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
27 those who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.
28 The descendants of Issachar, their generations, by their
clans and families, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
29 those who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.
30 The descendants of Zebulun, their generations, by their
clans and families, according to the number of the names,
from twenty years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
31 those who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.
32 The descendants of Joseph, from the children of Ephraim,
their generations, by their clans and families, according to the
number of the names, from twenty years old and older, all who
were able to go to war:
33 those who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.
34 The descendants of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years
old and older, all who were able to go to war:
35 those who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.
36 The descendants of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans and
families, according to the number of the names, from twenty years
old and older, all who were able to go to war:
37 those who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were: 35,400.
38 The descendants of Dan, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
39 those who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
40 The descendants of Asher, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
41 those who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.
42 The descendants of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans
and families, according to the number of the names, from twenty
years old and older, all who were able to go to war:
43 those who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

44 These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron and the twelve
leaders of Israel, each one representing his fathers' house.
45 So all the Israelites were numbered according to their families,
from twenty years old and older, all who were able to go to war
in Israel.
46 All those who were numbered totaled 603,550.

47 But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers,
were not numbered among them.
48 For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
49 "Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or take a census
of them among the Israelites.
50 Rather appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony,
and over all its furnishings and over all that belongs to it.
They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings.
They must take care of it and encamp around the tabernacle.
51 Whenever the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites must take it down,
and whenever the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites
must set it up. Any outsider who comes near must be put to death.
52 The Israelites will pitch their tents according to their
divisions, every man in his own camp and by his own standard.
53 But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the
Testimony, so that there be no wrath on the congregation
of the Israelites. The Levites must guard the tabernacle
of the Testimony."
54 Thus the Israelites did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, that is exactly what they did.

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