1. The Lord spoke to Moses in the Sinai desert in the meeting tent on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they left the land of Egypt:
2. Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their households, recording the name of every male,
3. 20 years old and above, who is eligible for military service in Israel. These you and Aaron will enlist in their military units.
4. Take with you one man from each tribe who is the head of his household.
5. These are the names of the men who will assist you:from Reuben, Elizur, Shedeur’s son;
6. from Simeon, Shelumiel, Zurishaddai’s son;
7. from Judah, Nahshon, Amminadab’s son;
8. from Issachar, Nethanel, Zuar’s son;
9. from Zebulun, Eliab, Helon’s son;
10. from Joseph’s sons:from Ephraim, Elishama, Ammihud’s son;from Manasseh, Gamaliel, Pedahzur’s son;
11. from Benjamin, Abidan, Gideoni’s son;
12. from Dan, Ahiezer, Ammishaddai’s son;