The Wilderness Years

And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni;

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

All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim are a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third.

The standard of the camp of Dan is northward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

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

And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran;

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

And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan;

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

All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed; each by his families, by the house of his fathers.

And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.

And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;

these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.

And Nadab dieth--Abihu also--before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar--Ithamar also--acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;

and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

`And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;