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16 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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These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
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Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified,
18 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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and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,
19 as the Lord commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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as the LORD commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
20 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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From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
21 those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
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The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
22 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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From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
23 those enrolled of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
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The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
24 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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From the descendants of Gad: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
25 those enrolled of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
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The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
26 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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From the descendants of Judah: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.
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