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Then the LORDspoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the secondyear after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
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"Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, everymale, head by head
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and they assembledall the congregation together on the first of the secondmonth. Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, head by head,
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Now the sons of Reuben, Israel'sfirstborn, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, head by head, everymale from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, everymale from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Gad, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Judah, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Dan, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Asher, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogicalregistration by their families, by their fathers'households, according to the number of names, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,
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These are the ones who were numbered, whomMoses and Aaronnumbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve*men, each of whom was of his father'shousehold.
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So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers'households, from twentyyearsold and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,
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"But you shall appoint the Levitesover the tabernacle of the testimony, and overall its furnishings and overall that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall takecare of it; they shall also camparound the tabernacle.
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"So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacleencamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman who comesnear shall be put to death.
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"But the Levites shall camparound the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be nowrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keepcharge of the tabernacle of the testimony."