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God Commands Moses to Take a Census

Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of assembly, on the first of the month, in the second year after they came out[a] of the land of Egypt, saying, Take a census of[b] the entire community of the Israelites[c] according to their clans and their families,[d] according to the number of names, every male individually from twenty years old[e] and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them[f] for their wars.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:1 Literally “of their coming out”
  2. Numbers 1:2 Literally “Lift up the head of”
  3. Numbers 1:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Numbers 1:2 Literally “the house of their fathers”
  5. Numbers 1:3 Literally “a son of twenty years”
  6. Numbers 1:3 Or “count them,” or “summon them,” or “enroll them”

The Census

The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting(A) in the Desert of Sinai(B) on the first day of the second month(C) of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.(D) He said: “Take a census(E) of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families,(F) listing every man by name,(G) one by one. You and Aaron(H) are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more(I) and able to serve in the army.(J)

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