1. In the second year after the Israelites’ departure from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the second month, the Lord said to Moses at the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai:
2. Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites, by clans and ancestral houses, registering by name each male individually.
3. You and Aaron shall enroll in companies all the men in Israel of twenty years or more who are fit for military service.
4. With you there shall be a man from each tribe, each the head of his ancestral house.
5. These are the names of those who are to assist you:from Reuben: Elizur, son of Shedeur;
6. from Simeon: Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai;
7. from Judah: Nahshon, son of Amminadab;
8. from Issachar: Nethanel, son of Zuar;
9. from Zebulun: Eliab, son of Helon;
10. for the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim: Elishama, son of Ammihud; and from Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur;
11. from Benjamin: Abidan, son of Gideoni;
12. from Dan: Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai;
13. from Asher: Pagiel, son of Ochran;
14. from Gad: Eliasaph, son of Reuel;
15. from Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan.
16. These were the elect of the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of the clans of Israel.
17. So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
18. and assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. Every man of twenty years or more then registered individually his name and lineage according to clan and ancestral house,
19. as the Lord had commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai.