Numbers 1
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The Census of Israel
1The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting # Ex 27:21; 40:2,6-7,34-35 in the Wilderness of Sinai, # Ex 19:1; Nm 33:16 on the first day of the second month of the second year # Ex 12:40-41; 19:1; 40:17 after Israel’s departure from the land of Egypt: 2“Take a census # Ex 30:11-16; Nm 26:2 of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one. 3You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more by their military divisions — everyone who can serve in Israel’s army. # Lit everyone going out to war in Israel # Ex 30:14; Nm 14:29; 32:11; 1Ch 23:24,27; Ezr 3:8 4A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house. # Nm 1:16; Jos 22:14 5These are the names of the men who are to assist you:
Elizur son of Shedeur # Nm 2:3-30; 7:18-78; 10:14-27 from Reuben;
6Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai from Simeon;
7Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah;
8Nethanel son of Zuar from Issachar;
9Eliab son of Helon from Zebulun;
10from the sons of Joseph:
Elishama son of Ammihud from Ephraim,
Gamaliel son of Pedahzur from Manasseh;
11Abidan son of Gideoni from Benjamin;
12Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai from Dan;
13Pagiel son of Ochran from Asher;
14Eliasaph son of Deuel # LXX, Syr read Reuel from Gad;
15Ahira son of Enan from Naphtali.
16These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, # Nm 1:47; 13:2; 26:55; 33:54; 36:4-8 the heads of Israel’s clans.” # Nm 10:4; Jos 22:21,30
17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, # Ezr 8:20; 1Ch 12:31; 16:41; 2Ch 28:15; 31:19 18and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of those 20 years old or more, 19just as the Lord commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
20The descendants of Reuben, # Gn 29:32; 49:3-4; 1Ch 5:1 the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting one by one the names of every male 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 21those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.
22The descendants of Simeon: # Gn 29:33; 42:14-24; 49:5-7 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, those registered counting one by one the names of every male 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 23those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.
24The descendants of Gad: # Gn 30:11; 49:19 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 25those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.
26The descendants of Judah: # Gn 29:35; 49:8-12; Mt 1:2-3; Rv 5:5 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 27those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.
28The descendants of Issachar: # Gn 30:18; 49:14-15 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 29those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.
30The descendants of Zebulun: # Gn 30:20; 49:13 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 31those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.
32The descendants of Joseph: # Gn 30:22-24; 49:22-26
The descendants of Ephraim: # Gn 46:20; 48:13-20 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 33those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.
34The descendants of Manasseh: # Gn 46:20; 48:13-20 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 35those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.
36The descendants of Benjamin: # Gn 35:18; 49:27 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 37those registered for the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.
38The descendants of Dan: # Gn 30:6; 49:16-17 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 39those registered for the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.
40The descendants of Asher: # Gn 30:13; 49:20 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 41those registered for the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.
42The descendants of Naphtali: # Gn 30:8; 49:21 according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of those 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 43those registered for the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.
44These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house. 45So all the Israelites 20 years old or more, everyone who could serve in Israel’s army, were registered by their ancestral houses. 46All those registered numbered 603,550. # Ex 12:37; Nm 26:51
Duties of the Levites
47But the Levites # Gn 34:25,30; 49:5-7; Ex 32:26-29; Nm 3:6,12-13,40-43; 8:16-19; 18:1; Dt 10:8-9; 18:1-2; 21:5; Jos 13:14,33 were not registered with them by their ancestral tribe. 48For the Lord had told Moses: 49“Do not register or take a census of the tribe of Levi with the other Israelites. 50Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it. 51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized # Ex 29:33; 30:33; Nm 3:10,38; 16:40; 18:4,7 person who comes near it must be put to death. # Ex 19:12; Nm 3:10,38; 8:19; 18:7
52“The Israelites are to camp by their military divisions, each man with his encampment and under his banner. 53The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.” # Nm 3:7; 18:4-5; 1Ch 23:32; Ezk 44:15-16 54The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses. # Ex 39:32,42; Nm 9:5; 36:10; Jos 14:5
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Bamidbar 1
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1And Hashem spoke unto Moshe in the midbar of Sinai, in the Ohel Mo'ed, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of Eretz Mitzrayim, saying,
2Take ye the rosh (top amount, census) of kol Adat Bnei Yisroel after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, with the number of their shmot, every zachar by their head count;
3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able-bodied to serve in tzava b'Yisroel (army in Yisroel); thou and Aharon shall number them by their tzva'ot (legions).
4And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one Rosh of the bais of his Avot.
5And these are the shemot haanashim that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuven, Elitzur ben Shede'ur;
6Of Shim'on, Shelumiel ben Tzurishaddai;
7Of Yehudah, Nachshon ben Amminadav;
8Of Yissakhar, Netanel ben Tzuar;
9Of Zevulun, Eliav ben Chelon;
10Of the bnei Yosef: of Ephrayim, Elishama ben Ammihud; of Menasheh, Gamli'el ben Pedahtzur;
11Of Binyamin, Avidan ben Gideoni;
12Of Dan, Achi'ezer ben Ammishaddai;
13Of Asher, Pagiel ben Okhran;
14Of Gad, Elyasaph ben De'uel;
15Of Naphtali, Achira ben Enan.
16These were the called men of the Edah, nasiim of the tribes of their avot, rashei alfei Yisroel (head-men of the clans of Yisroel).
17And Moshe and Aharon took these men which had been designated by their names;
18And they assembled kol HaEdah together on the first yom of the second month, and they declared their family after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
19As Hashem commanded Moshe, so he counted them in the midbar of Sinai.
20And the bnei Reuven, Yisroelʼs bechor, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, one by one, every zachar from twenty years old and upward, all that are able-bodied to serve in tzava;
21Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuven, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
22Of the bnei Shim'on, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the shmot, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
23Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Shim'on, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
24Of the bnei Gad, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava;
25Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26Of the bnei Yehudah, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
27Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Yehudah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
28Of the bnei Yissakhar, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
29Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Yissakhar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
30Of the bnei Zevulun, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
31Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zevulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
32Of the bnei Yosef, namely, of the bnei Ephrayim, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
33Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephrayim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
34Of the bnei Menasheh, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
35Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Menasheh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
36Of the bnei Binyamin, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
37Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Binyamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
38Of the bnei Dan, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
39Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
40Of the bnei Asher, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
41Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
42Of the bnei Naphtali, throughout their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
43Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
44These are those that were numbered, which Moshe and Aharon numbered, and the nasiim (princes, rulers, exalted) of Yisroel, being shneym asar (twelve) men, each one representing the bais of his avot.
45So were all those that were numbered of the Bnei Yisroel, by the bais of their avot, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava b'Yisroel (army in Yisroel);
46Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47But the Levi'im after the tribe of their avot were not numbered among them.
48For Hashem had spoken unto Moshe saying,
49Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the Bnei Yisroel;
50But thou shalt appoint the Levi'im over the Mishkan HaEdut and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it; they shall bear the Mishkan, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp round about the Mishkan.
51And when the Mishkan setteth forward, the Levi'im shall take it down; and when the Mishkan is to be pitched, the Levi'im shall set it up; and the zar (stranger, outsider, unauthorized party) that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
52And the Bnei Yisroel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own machaneh (camp), and every man by his own degel (standard, banner), throughout their tzva'ot (hosts).
53But the Levi'im shall encamp around the Mishkan HaEdut, that there be no ketzef (wrath) fall upon the Adat Bnei Yisroel; and the Levi'im shall be shomer mishmeret (watch the watch, attend to, keep the charge, the reverence) of the Mishkan HaEdut.
54And the Bnei Yisroel did according to all that Hashem commanded Moshe, so did they.
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