The Wilderness Years

`And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;

and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

`Each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers, do the sons of Israel encamp; over-against round about the tent of meeting they encamp.'

And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab;

and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar;

and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;

and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;

all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.

The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur;

and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel;

and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.

And the tent of meeting--the camp of the Levites--hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards.

The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud;

and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

And by him is the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.