The Wilderness Years

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:

`Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names--every male by their polls;

from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

`And these are the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben--Elizur son of Shedeur.

`For Simeon--Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

`For Judah--Nahshon son of Amminadab.

`For Issachar--Nathaneel son of Zuar.

`For Zebulun--Eliab son of Helon.

`For the sons of Joseph--for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh--Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

`For Benjamin--Abidan son of Gideoni.

`For Dan--Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

`For Asher--Pagiel son of Ocran.

`For Gad--Eliasaph son of Deuel.

`For Naphtali--Ahira son of Enan.'

These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.

And Moses taketh--Aaron also--these men, who were defined by name,

and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.

And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born--their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host--

their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

Of the sons of Simeon--their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host--

their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

Of the sons of Gad--their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host--

their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.