1:1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:
1:2`Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
1:3from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;
1:4and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.
1:5`And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben -- Elizur son of Shedeur.
1:6`For Simeon -- Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.
1:7`For Judah -- Nahshon son of Amminadab.
1:8`For Issachar -- Nathaneel son of Zuar.
1:9`For Zebulun -- Eliab son of Helon.
1:10`For the sons of Joseph -- for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh -- Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
1:11`For Benjamin -- Abidan son of Gideoni.
1:12`For Dan -- Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
1:13`For Asher -- Pagiel son of Ocran.
1:14`For Gad -- Eliasaph son of Deuel.
1:15`For Naphtali -- Ahira son of Enan.'
1:16These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.
1:17And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,
1:18and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,
1:19as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:21their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.
1:22Of the sons of Simeon -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:23their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.
1:24Of the sons of Gad -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:25their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.
1:26Of the sons of Judah -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:27their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.
1:28Of the sons of Issachar -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:29their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.
1:30Of the sons of Zebulun -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:31their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.
1:32Of the sons of Joseph -- of the sons of Ephraim -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:33their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred.
1:34Of the sons of Manasseh -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:35their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, are two and thirty thousand and two hundred.
1:36Of the sons of Benjamin -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:37their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.
1:38Of the sons of Dan -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:39their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.
1:40Of the sons of Asher -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:41their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.
1:42Of the sons of Naphtali -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --
1:43their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.
1:44These are those numbered, whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men -- each for the house of his fathers, they have been.
1:45And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel,
1:46yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
1:47And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,
1:48seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
1:49`Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;
1:50and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.
1:51`And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'
1:52And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;
1:53and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.
1:54And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.
2:1And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
2:2`Each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers, do the sons of Israel encamp; over-against round about the tent of meeting they encamp.'
2:3And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
2:4and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.
2:5And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar;
2:6and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.
2:7The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;
2:8and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;
2:9all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.
2:10The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur;
2:11and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.
2:12And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
2:13and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.
2:14And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel;
2:15and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.
2:16All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.
2:17And the tent of meeting -- the camp of the Levites -- hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards.
2:18The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud;
2:19and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.
2:20And by him is the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
2:21and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.
2:22And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni;
2:23and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.
2:24All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim are a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third.
2:25The standard of the camp of Dan is northward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
2:26and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.
2:27And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran;
2:28and his host, and their numbered ones, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.
2:29And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan;
2:30and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.
2:31All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.
2:32These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.
2:33And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
2:34And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed; each by his families, by the house of his fathers.
3:1And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.
3:2And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;
3:3these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.
3:4And Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar -- Ithamar also -- acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.
3:5And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
3:6`Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,
3:7and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;
3:8and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;
3:9and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.
3:10`And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'
3:11And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
3:12`And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;
3:13for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'
3:14And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
3:15`Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'
3:16And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
3:17And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
3:18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
3:19And the sons of Kohath, by their families, are Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.
3:20And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.
3:21Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite.
3:22Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred.
3:23The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
3:24And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael.
3:25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,
3:26and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service.
3:27And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite.
3:28In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
3:29The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward.
3:30And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
3:31And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service.
3:32And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.
3:33Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari.
3:34And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred.
3:35And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward.
3:36And the oversight -- the charge of the sons of Merari -- is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service,
3:37and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
3:38And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.
3:39All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also -- by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, are two and twenty thousand.
3:40And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names;
3:41and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.'
3:42And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel.
3:43And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.
3:44And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
3:45`Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah.
3:46`And from those ransomed of the two hundred and seventy and three (who are more than the Levites) of the first-born of the sons of Israel,
3:47thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;
3:48and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'
3:49And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites;
3:50from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary;
3:51and Moses giveth the money of those ransomed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the command of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.