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A 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, “From the whole community of Israel, record
the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men
twenty years old or older who are able to go to war. You and Aaron must
register the troops, and you will be assisted by one family leader from
each tribe.
“These are the tribes and the names of the leaders who will assist you:
Tribe
Leader
Reuben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizur son of Shedeur
Simeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai
Judah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nahshon son of Amminadab
Issachar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nethanel son of Zuar
Zebulun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliab son of Helon
Ephraim son of Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elishama son of Ammihud
Manasseh son of Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gamaliel son of Pedahzur
Benjamin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abidan son of Gideoni
Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai
Asher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pagiel son of Ocran
Gad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliasaph son of Deuel
Naphtali. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ahira son of Enan
These are the chosen leaders of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.”
So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders, and 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,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names
in the wilderness of Sinai.
This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go
to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families:
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