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Numbers 1:2-18 World English Bible (WEB)

2. “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one;

3. from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.

4. With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers’ house.

5. These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: 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.

12. Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

13. Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.

14. Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

15. Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”

16. These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

17. Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.

18. They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

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