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Numbers 1:16-27 Modern English Version (MEV)

16. These were the renowned of the congregation, leaders of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

17. Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name,

18. and they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees according to their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

19. As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

20. The children of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel,by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,

21. those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

22. Of the children of Simeon,by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those who were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,

23. those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24. Of the children of Gad,by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,

25. those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

26. Of the children of Judah,by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war,

27. those who were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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