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Leaders Appointed for the Census
Numbers 1:5-19
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These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
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from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;
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from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;
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from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
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from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
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from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
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from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;
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from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
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from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
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from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
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and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
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These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.
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So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
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and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,
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just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
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