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These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the divisions of Israel.
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Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
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and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation together. They registered themselves in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, individually,
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as the Lord commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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The descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, individually, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war:
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those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
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The descendants of Simeon, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, individually, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war:
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those enrolled of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
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The descendants of Gad, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war:
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those enrolled of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
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The descendants of Judah, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war:
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