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Numbers
Registration of Israel’s Troops
A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in
the Tabernacle* in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second
month* of that year he said, 2 “From the whole community of Israel, record
the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men
3 twenty years old or older who are able to go to war. You and Aaron must
register the troops, 4 and you will be assisted by one family leader from each
tribe.
5 “These are the tribes and the names of the leaders who will assist you:
1
Tribe
Leader
Reuben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizur son of Shedeur
6 Simeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai
7 Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nahshon son of Amminadab
8 Issachar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nethanel son of Zuar
9 Zebulun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliab son of Helon
10 Ephraim son of Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elishama son of Ammihud
Manasseh son of Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gamaliel son of Pedahzur
11 Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abidan son of Gideoni
12 Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai
13 Asher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pagiel son of Ocran
14 Gad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliasaph son of Deuel
15 Naphtali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ahira son of Enan
16 These are the chosen leaders of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.”
17 So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders, 18 and they
assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day.* All the people
were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The
men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one,
19 just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names
in the wilderness of Sinai.
20-21 This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able
to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and
families*:
Tribe
Number
Reuben (Jacob’s* oldest son) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,500
22-23 Simeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,300
24-25 Gad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,650
26-27 Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,600
28-29 Issachar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,400
30-31 Zebulun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,400
1:1a Hebrew the Tent of Meeting. 1:1b This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred
in April or May. 1:18 Hebrew on the first day of the second month; see 1:1. 1:20-21a In the
Hebrew text, this sentence (This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go
to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families) is repeated in 1:22, 24, 26,
28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. 1:20-21b Hebrew Israel’s. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often
interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and
sometimes to the nation.
