Numbers 1

Registration of Israel’s Troops

1A year after Israel’s departure from Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the Tabernacle* in the wilderness of Sinai. On the first day of the second month* of that year he said, 2“From the whole community of Israel, record the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men 3twenty years old or older who are able to go to war. You and Aaron must register the troops, 4and you will be assisted by one family leader from each tribe.

5“These are the tribes and the names of the leaders who will assist you:

Tribe Leader Reuben Elizur son of Shedeur 6Simeon Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai 7Judah Nahshon son of Amminadab 8Issachar Nethanel son of Zuar 9Zebulun Eliab son of Helon 10Ephraim son of Joseph Elishama son of Ammihud Manasseh son of Joseph Gamaliel son of Pedahzur 11Benjamin Abidan son of Gideoni 12Dan Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai 13Asher Pagiel son of Ocran 14Gad Eliasaph son of Deuel 15Naphtali Ahira son of Enan

16These are the chosen leaders of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.”

17So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders, 18and they assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day.* All the people were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one, 19just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names in the wilderness of Sinai.