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1 ADONAI spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said,
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And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,
2 "Take a census of the entire assembly of the people of Isra'el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men
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Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;
3 twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra'el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.
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All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.
4 Take with you from each tribe someone who is head of a clan.
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And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.
5 These are the men to take with you: From Re'uven, Elitzur the son of Sh'de'ur;
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These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;
6 From Shim'on, Shlumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai;
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From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;
7 From Y'hudah, Nachshon the son of 'Amminadav;
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From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;
8 From Yissakhar, N'tan'el the son of Tzu'ar;
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From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;
9 From Z'vulun, Eli'av the son of Helon.
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From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;
10 Of the children of Yosef: From Efrayim, Elishama the son of 'Ammihud; From M'nasheh, Gamli'el the son of P'dahtzur.
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Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,
11 From Binyamin, Avidan the son of Gid'oni;
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From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;
12 From Dan, Achi'ezer the son of 'Ammishaddai;
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From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;
13 From Asher, Pag'i'el the son of 'Okhran;
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From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;
14 From Gad, Elyasaf the son of De'u'el;
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From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;
15 From Naftali, Achira the son of 'Enan."
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From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.
16 These were the ones called from the assembly, the chiefs of their fathers'clans and heads of thousands in Isra'el.
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These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.
17 So Moshe and Aharon took these men who had been designated by name;
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And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;
18 and, on the first day of the second month, they gathered the whole assembly to state their genealogies by families and clans and recorded the names of all those twenty years old and over, as well as their total numbers.
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And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.
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