1 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 “The sons of Israel encamp, each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers; they encamp around, from in sight of the Tent of Meeting.” 3 And those encamping eastward toward 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; 4 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] seventy-four thousand and six hundred. 5 And those encamping by him [are] of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar [is] Nethaneel son of Zuar; 6 and his host, and its numbered ones, [are] fifty-four thousand and four hundred. 7 The tribe of Zebulun [is with them]; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun [is] Eliab son of Helon; 8 and his host, and its numbered ones, [are] fifty-seven thousand and four hundred. 9 All those numbered of the camp of Judah [are] one hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first. 10 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; 11 and his host, and its numbered ones, [are] forty-six thousand and five hundred. 12 And those encamping by him [are of] the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon [is] Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 13 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] fifty-nine thousand and three hundred. 14 And the tribe of Gad [is with him]; and the prince of the sons of Gad [is] Eliasaph son of Reuel; 15 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty. 16 All those numbered of the camp of Reuben [are] one hundred thousand and fifty-one thousand and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second. 17 And the Tent of Meeting has journeyed [with] the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards. 18 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; 19 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] forty thousand and five hundred. 20 And by him [is] the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh [is] Gamaliel son of Pedahzur; 21 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] thirty-two thousand and two hundred. 22 And the tribe of Benjamin [is with them]; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin [is] Abidan son of Gideoni; 23 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] thirty-five thousand and four hundred. 24 All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim [are] one hundred thousand and eight thousand and one hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third. 25 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; 26 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] sixty-two thousand and seven hundred. 27 And those encamping by him [are of] the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher [is] Pagiel son of Ocran; 28 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] forty-one thousand and five hundred. 29 And the tribe of Naphtali [is with them]; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali [is] Ahira son of Enan; 30 and his host, and their numbered ones, [are] fifty-three thousand and four hundred. 31 All those numbered of the camp of Dan [are] one hundred thousand and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred; they journey at the rear by their standards. 32 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. 33 And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as YHWH has commanded Moses. 34 And the sons of Israel do according to all that YHWH has commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed, each by his families, by the house of his fathers.
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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
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
Ocran
The father of Pagiel, who was the leader of the tribe of Asher in the wilderness.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 1:13; Numbers 2:27
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 (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 1 Corinthians 14:40; Numbers 10:25; Numbers 1:50; Numbers 10:22; Joshua 3:4
- 3 Ruth 4:20; 1 Chronicles 2:10; Luke 3:32–33; Numbers 10:14–16; Numbers 1:7
- 4 Numbers 26:22; Numbers 1:27
- 5 Numbers 1:8; Numbers 7:18; Numbers 7:23; Numbers 10:15; Numbers 26:23–25
- 6 Numbers 1:29; Numbers 26:25
- 7 Numbers 1:9; Numbers 7:29; Numbers 1:30–31; Numbers 10:16; Numbers 7:24
- 8 Numbers 1:31; Numbers 26:26–27
- 9 Numbers 10:14
- 10 Numbers 1:5; Numbers 7:35; 1 Chronicles 5:1; Genesis 49:3–4; Numbers 10:18
- 11 Numbers 26:7; Numbers 1:21
- 12 Numbers 1:6; Numbers 10:19; Numbers 7:41; Numbers 7:36
- 13 Numbers 1:23; Numbers 26:14
- 14 Numbers 7:42; Numbers 1:14; Numbers 10:20; Numbers 7:47
- 15 Numbers 1:25; Numbers 26:18
- 16 Numbers 10:18; Numbers 2:9; Numbers 2:24; Numbers 2:31
- 17 Numbers 10:21; Numbers 1:50–53; Numbers 10:17; Numbers 3:38; 1 Corinthians 14:40
- 18 Numbers 1:10; Numbers 10:22; Genesis 48:14–20; Numbers 7:48; Genesis 48:5
- 19 Numbers 1:33; Numbers 26:37
- 20 Numbers 1:10; Numbers 7:59; Numbers 10:23; Numbers 7:54
- 21 Numbers 1:35; Numbers 26:34
- 22 Numbers 1:11; Psalm 68:27; Numbers 10:24; Numbers 7:65; Numbers 7:60
- 23 Numbers 26:41; Numbers 1:37
- 24 Numbers 10:22; Psalm 80:2; Numbers 2:16; Numbers 2:31; Numbers 2:9
- 25 Numbers 1:12; Numbers 7:66; Numbers 10:25; Numbers 7:71
- 26 Numbers 1:39; Numbers 26:43
- 27 Numbers 1:13; Numbers 7:72; Numbers 7:77
- 28 Numbers 1:41; Numbers 26:47
- 29 Numbers 1:15; Numbers 26:48–50; Numbers 7:83; Numbers 1:42–43; Numbers 10:27
- 30 Numbers 26:50; Numbers 1:42–43
- 31 Numbers 10:25; Numbers 2:16; Numbers 2:24; Numbers 2:9
- 32 Numbers 1:46; Exodus 38:26; Exodus 12:37; Numbers 11:21; Numbers 26:51
- 33 Numbers 26:57–62; Numbers 1:47–49
- 34 Psalm 119:6; Numbers 24:5–6; Numbers 24:2; Luke 1:6; Numbers 2:2
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Also the tribe of Judah as the most precious pitched their camp on the East.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)