The Wilderness Years

Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Were reckoned up seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Of the sons of Issachar, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,

Were reckoned up fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Forty thousand five hundred.

Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that could go forth to war,

Thirty-two thousand two hundred.

Of the sons of Benjamin, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Of the sons of Dan, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

Of the sons of Aser, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Forty-one thousand and five hundred.

Of the sons of Nephtali, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, were able to go forth to war,

Fifty-three thousand four hundred.

These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.

And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go to war,

Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

But the Levites in the tribes of their families were not numbered with them.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put down the sum of them with the children of Israel:

But appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, and all the vessels thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall minister, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.