Chapter 1
1 AND THE HaShem spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year
after the were come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2 'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of
names, every male, by their polls;
3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go
forth to war in Israel: ye shall number them by their hosts, even thou and
Aaron.
4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one
head of his fathers' house.
5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with
you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur.
6 Of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7 Of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
8 Of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar.
9 Of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.
10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the son of
Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni.
12 Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
13 Of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran.
14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
15 Of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.'
16 These were the elect of the congregation, the princes of
the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
17 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are pointed out by
name.
18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the
first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
19 As HaShem commanded Moses, so did he number them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their
generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the
number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward,
all that were able to go forth to war;
21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according
to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and
upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad,
were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah,
were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar,
were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun,
were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of
Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war;
33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim,
were forty thousand and five hundred.
34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
39 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
41 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher,
were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their
families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
43 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali,
were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron
numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; they were each one for
his fathers' house.
45 And all those that were numbered of the children of Israel
by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able
to go forth to war in Israel;
46 even all those that were numbered were six hundred
thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not
numbered among them.
48 And HaShem spoke unto Moses, saying:
49 'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither
shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel;
50 but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the
testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to
it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they
shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall
take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it
up; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every
man with his own camp, and every man with his own standard, according to their
hosts.
53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of
the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of
Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the
testimony.'
54 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that
HaShem commanded Moses, so did they.
Sources: Portions copyright © 1997 by Benyamin Pilant, All Rights Reserved
JPS Electronic Edition, based on the 1917 JPS translation, Copyright © 1998 by Larry Nelson, All Rights Reserved
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