1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls; 3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers’ house. 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan. 16 These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. 17 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name: 18 and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. 28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. 32 Of the children of Joseph, [namely], of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred. 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. 38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 39 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 41 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. 42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 43 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. 44 These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers’ house. 45 So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; 46 even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 49 Only the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; 50 but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. 51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts. 53 But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony. 54 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.
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People
Abidan
The son of Gideoni who was appointed leader of the tribe of Benjamin to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the ninth…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:11; Numbers 2:22; Numbers 7:60
Ahiezer
The son of Ammishaddai who was appointed leader of the tribe of Dan to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the tenth…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:12; Numbers 2:25; Numbers 7:66
Ahira
The son of Enan who was appointed leader of the tribe of Naphtali to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the twelfth…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:15; Numbers 2:29; Numbers 7:78
Ammihud
Son of Ladan in Ephraim's line and father of Elishama, the Ephraimite leader in the wilderness, whose grandson was Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:26-27).
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:18; 1 Chronicles 7:26
Ammishaddai
The father of Ahiezer, who was the leader of the tribe of Dan in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:12; Numbers 2:25
Deuel
The father of Eliasaph, who was the leader of the tribe of Gad in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:14; Numbers 2:14
Eliab
The son of Helon who was appointed leader of the tribe of Zebulun to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the third…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:9; Numbers 2:7; Numbers 7:24
Eliasaph
The son of Deuel who was appointed leader of the tribe of Gad to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the sixth day's…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:14; Numbers 2:14; Numbers 7:42
Elishama
The son of Ammihud who was appointed leader of the tribe of Ephraim to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the seventh…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:18; Numbers 7:48
Elizur
The son of Shedeur who was appointed leader of the tribe of Reuben to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the fourth…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:5; Numbers 2:10; Numbers 7:30
Enan
The father of Ahira, who was the leader of the tribe of Naphtali in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:15; Numbers 2:29
Gamaliel
The son of Pedahzur who was appointed leader of the tribe of Manasseh to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 7:54
Gideoni
The father of Abidan, who was the leader of the tribe of Benjamin in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:11; Numbers 2:22
Helon
The father of Eliab, who was the leader of the tribe of Zebulun in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:9; Numbers 2:7
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Nahshon
Leader of the tribe of Judah in the wilderness, first to bring his offering.
Cited in the guide: Num. 1:7; 2:3; 7:12; Ruth 4:20; Matt. 1:4
Nethanel
The son of Zuar who was appointed leader of the tribe of Issachar to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the second…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:8; Numbers 2:5; Numbers 7:18
Pagiel
The son of Ocran who was appointed leader of the tribe of Asher to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the eleventh…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:13; Numbers 2:27; Numbers 7:72
Pedahzur
The father of Gamaliel, who was the leader of the tribe of Manasseh in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:10; Numbers 2:20
Shedeur
The father of Elizur, who was the leader of the tribe of Reuben in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:5; Numbers 2:10
Shelumiel
The son of Zurishaddai who was appointed leader of the tribe of Simeon to help Moses and Aaron with the census, commanded his tribe's division on the march, and presented the…
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:6; Numbers 2:12; Numbers 7:36
Zuar
The father of Nethanel, who was the leader of the tribe of Issachar in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:8; Numbers 2:5
Zurishaddai
The father of Shelumiel, who was the leader of the tribe of Simeon in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:6; Numbers 2:12
Cross references (52)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 25:22; Exodus 19:1; Numbers 10:11–12; Exodus 40:17; Numbers 9:1
- 2 Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 26:2–4; Numbers 1:22
- 3 Exodus 30:14; Numbers 14:29; Numbers 26:2; 2 Samuel 24:9; 2 Chronicles 26:11–13
- 4 Numbers 1:16; Exodus 18:25; Numbers 25:4; Numbers 2:3–31; Numbers 7:10–83
- 5 Numbers 7:30; Genesis 30:5–20; Genesis 29:32–35; Genesis 46:8–24; Revelation 7:4–8
- 6 Numbers 7:36; Numbers 2:12
- 7 Luke 3:32; Numbers 10:14; Ruth 4:20; Ruth 4:18; 1 Chronicles 2:10–11
- 8 Numbers 7:18; Numbers 2:5; Numbers 10:15
- 9 Numbers 7:24; Numbers 10:16; Numbers 2:7
- 10 Numbers 7:48; Numbers 7:54; 1 Chronicles 7:26–27; Numbers 2:20; Numbers 2:18
- 11 Numbers 7:60; Numbers 10:24; Numbers 2:22
- 12 Numbers 7:66; Numbers 2:25; Numbers 10:25
- 13 Numbers 7:72; Numbers 10:26; Numbers 2:27
- 14 Numbers 2:14; Numbers 7:42; Numbers 10:20
- 15 Numbers 7:78; Numbers 10:27; Numbers 2:29
- 16 Exodus 18:25; Exodus 18:21; Numbers 7:2; Numbers 26:9; 1 Chronicles 27:16–22
- 17 Numbers 1:5–15; Revelation 7:4–17; John 10:3
- 18 Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61; Hebrews 7:3; Hebrews 7:6; Numbers 1:1
- 19 Numbers 1:2; 2 Samuel 24:1–10; Numbers 26:1–2
- 20 Numbers 26:5–7; Numbers 2:10–11; Genesis 49:3–4; Genesis 46:9; Genesis 29:32
- 21 Numbers 26:7; Numbers 2:10–11
- 22 Numbers 26:12–14; Genesis 49:5–6; Genesis 46:10; Genesis 34:25–30; Genesis 29:33
- 23 Numbers 26:14; Numbers 25:14; Numbers 25:8–9; Numbers 2:13
- 24 Numbers 26:15–18; Genesis 49:19; Numbers 2:14–15; Genesis 30:10–11; Genesis 46:16
- 25 Numbers 26:18; Numbers 2:15
- 26 Genesis 29:35; Numbers 26:19–22; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Chronicles 5:2; Genesis 49:8–12
- 27 Numbers 26:22; 2 Samuel 24:9; Numbers 2:3–4; 2 Chronicles 17:14–16
- 28 Numbers 2:5–6; Numbers 23:23–25; Genesis 30:18; Numbers 26:23–25; Genesis 49:14–15
- 29 Numbers 26:25; Numbers 2:6
- 30 Numbers 26:26–27; Numbers 2:7–8; Genesis 49:13; Genesis 46:14; Genesis 30:20
- 31 Numbers 26:27; Numbers 2:8
- 32 Numbers 26:35–37; Deuteronomy 33:17; Genesis 48:1–22; Genesis 49:22–26; Genesis 39:1–23
- 33 Numbers 26:37; Numbers 2:19; Genesis 48:5; Deuteronomy 33:17
- 34 Numbers 26:28–34
- 35 Numbers 26:34; Genesis 48:19–20; Numbers 2:21
- 36 Genesis 49:27; Genesis 46:21; 2 Chronicles 17:17; Numbers 26:38–41; Genesis 35:16–18
- 37 Numbers 26:41; Numbers 2:23; Judges 20:44–46; 2 Chronicles 17:17
- 38 Genesis 46:23; Numbers 26:42–43; Genesis 49:16–17; Genesis 30:5–6
- 39 Numbers 26:43; Numbers 2:26
- 40 Numbers 26:44–47; Genesis 30:12–13; Genesis 49:20; Genesis 46:27
- 41 Numbers 26:47; Numbers 2:28
- 42 Genesis 30:7–8; Genesis 46:24; Genesis 49:21; Numbers 26:48–50
- 43 Numbers 26:50; Numbers 2:30
- 44 Numbers 26:64; Numbers 1:2–16
- 46 Exodus 12:37; Exodus 38:26; Numbers 26:51; Numbers 2:32; Genesis 17:6
- 47 Numbers 2:33; Numbers 3:1–4:49; Numbers 26:57–62; 1 Chronicles 21:6; 1 Chronicles 6:1–81
- 49 Numbers 26:62; Numbers 2:33
- 50 Exodus 38:21; Exodus 31:18; Numbers 4:15; Nehemiah 13:22; Numbers 3:23–38
- 51 Numbers 3:38; Numbers 3:10; 1 Samuel 6:19; 2 Samuel 6:7; Numbers 18:22
- 52 Numbers 2:2; Numbers 2:34; Numbers 24:2; Numbers 10:1–36
- 53 Numbers 16:46; Leviticus 10:6; 1 Chronicles 23:32; Numbers 8:19; Numbers 31:30
- 54 Deuteronomy 12:32; Matthew 28:20; Exodus 40:32; Exodus 39:32; Exodus 39:43
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