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Numbers 1:11Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt. He said:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:22“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:33You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:44And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:55Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:66from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:77from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:88from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:99from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1010from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1111from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1212from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1313from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1414from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1515from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1616These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1717So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1818and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:1919just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the desert of Sinai.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2020And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2121Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2222From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2323Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2424From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2525Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Gad were 45,650.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2626From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2727Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2828From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:2929Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3030From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3131Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3232From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3333Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3434From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3535Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3636From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3737Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3838From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:3939Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4040From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4141Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Asher were 41,500.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4242From the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4343Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4444These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4545All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered according to their families.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4646And all those numbered totaled 603,550.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4747But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4848The Lord had said to Moses,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:4949“Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:5050But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its furnishings and over everything in it. They must carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they must attend to it and camp around it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:5151Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:5252“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:5353But the Levites must camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that the Lord ’s anger will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the testimony.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
Numbers 1:5454The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses —that is what they did.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
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