1. And 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 went out from the land of Egypt, saying:
2. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls,
3. from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron will number them by their armies.
4. With you there will be a man of every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house.
5. These are the names of the men who will stand with you:of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6. of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7. of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8. of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9. of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10. of the children of Joseph:of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud;of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11. of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;