Numbers 1-4

Numbers 1

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:

²‘Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;

³from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

⁴and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

⁵‘And these are the names of the men who stand with you: ‘For Reuben -- Elizur son of Shedeur.

⁶‘For Simeon -- Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

⁷‘For Judah -- Nahshon son of Amminadab.

⁸‘For Issachar -- Nathaneel son of Zuar.

⁹‘For Zebulun -- Eliab son of Helon.

¹⁰‘For the sons of Joseph -- for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh -- Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

¹¹‘For Benjamin -- Abidan son of Gideoni.

¹²‘For Dan -- Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

¹³‘For Asher -- Pagiel son of Ocran.

¹⁴‘For Gad -- Eliasaph son of Deuel.

¹⁵‘For Naphtali -- Ahira son of Enan.'

¹⁶These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.

¹⁷And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,

¹⁸and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

¹⁹as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.

²⁰And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²¹their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

²²Of the sons of Simeon -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²³their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

²⁴Of the sons of Gad -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁵their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

²⁶Of the sons of Judah -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁷their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

²⁸Of the sons of Issachar -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁹their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

³⁰Of the sons of Zebulun -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³¹their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

³²Of the sons of Joseph -- of the sons of Ephraim -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³³their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁴Of the sons of Manasseh -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁵their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, are two and thirty thousand and two hundred.

³⁶Of the sons of Benjamin -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁷their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

³⁸Of the sons of Dan -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁹their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

⁴⁰Of the sons of Asher -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

⁴¹their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.

⁴²Of the sons of Naphtali -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

⁴³their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

⁴⁴These are those numbered, whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men -- each for the house of his fathers, they have been.

⁴⁵And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel,

⁴⁶yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

⁴⁷And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

⁴⁸seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁹‘Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;

⁵⁰and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.

⁵¹‘And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

⁵²And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;

⁵³and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁵⁴And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.

Numbers 2

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

²‘Each by his standard, with ensigns of the house of their fathers, do the sons of Israel encamp; over-against round about the tent of meeting they encamp.'

³And those encamping eastward towards the sun-rising, are of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Judah is Nahshon, son of Amminadab;

⁴and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

⁵And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Issachar; and the prince of the sons of Issachar is Nethaneel son of Zuar;

⁶and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

⁷The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon;

⁸and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;

⁹all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.

¹⁰The standard of the camp of Reuben is southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur;

¹¹and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

¹²And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

¹³and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

¹⁴And the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel;

¹⁵and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

¹⁶All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.

¹⁷And the tent of meeting -- the camp of the Levites -- hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards.

¹⁸The standard of the camp of Ephraim, by their hosts, is westward; and the prince of the sons of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud;

¹⁹and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

²⁰And by him is the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

²¹and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.

²²And the tribe of Benjamin; and the prince of the sons of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni;

²³and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

²⁴All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim are a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third.

²⁵The standard of the camp of Dan is northward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

²⁶and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

²⁷And those encamping by him are of the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher is Pagiel son of Ocran;

²⁸and his host, and their numbered ones, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.

²⁹And the tribe of Naphtali; and the prince of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan;

³⁰and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

³¹All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

³²These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

³³And the Levites have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

³⁴And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed; each by his families, by the house of his fathers.

Numbers 3

¹And these are births of Aaron and Moses, in the day of Jehovah's speaking with Moses in mount Sinai.

²And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;

³these are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he hath consecrated for acting as priest.

⁴And Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar -- Ithamar also -- acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.

⁵And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁶‘Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

⁷and kept his charge, and the charge of all the company before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle;

⁸and they have kept all the vessels of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle;

⁹and thou hast given the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are surely given to him out of the sons of Israel.

¹⁰‘And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

¹¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

¹²‘And I, lo, I have taken the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel instead of every first-born opening a womb among the sons of Israel, and the Levites have been Mine;

¹³for Mine is every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I am Jehovah.'

¹⁴And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

¹⁵‘Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward thou dost number them.'

¹⁶And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.

¹⁷And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

¹⁸And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

¹⁹And the sons of Kohath, by their families, are Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

²⁰And the sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites, by the house of their fathers.

²¹Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite.

²²Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred.

²³The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.

²⁴And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael.

²⁵And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,

²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and its cords, to all its service.

²⁷And of Kohath is the family of the Amramite, and the family of the Izharite, and the family of the Hebronite, and the family of the Uzzielite; these are families of the Kohathite.

²⁸In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

²⁹The families of the sons of Kohath encamp by the side of the tabernacle southward.

³⁰And the prince of a father's house for the families of the Kohathite is Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

³¹And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they serve, and the vail, and all its service.

³²And to the prince of the princes of the Levites, Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, is the oversight of the keepers of the charge of the sanctuary.

³³Of Merari is the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these are the families of Merari.

³⁴And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred.

³⁵And the prince of a father's house for the families of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; by the side of the tabernacle they encamp northward.

³⁶And the oversight -- the charge of the sons of Merari -- is the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all its vessels, and all its service,

³⁷and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

³⁸And those encamping before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting, at the east, are Moses and Aaron, and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the sons of Israel, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.

³⁹All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also -- by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, are two and twenty thousand.

⁴⁰And Jehovah saith unto Moses, ‘Number every first-born male of the sons of Israel from a son of a month and upward, and take up the number of their names;

⁴¹and thou hast taken the Levites for Me (I am Jehovah), instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of every firstling among the cattle of the sons of Israel.'

⁴²And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel.

⁴³And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

⁴⁴And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁵‘Take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites have been Mine; I am Jehovah.

⁴⁶‘And from those ransomed of the two hundred and seventy and three (who are more than the Levites) of the first-born of the sons of Israel,

⁴⁷thou hast even taken five shekels a-piece by the poll -- by the shekel of the sanctuary thou takest; twenty gerahs the shekel is;

⁴⁸and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'

⁴⁹And Moses taketh the ransom money from those over and above those ransomed by the Levites;

⁵⁰from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary;

⁵¹and Moses giveth the money of those ransomed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the command of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

Numbers 4

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,

²‘Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers;

³from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

⁴‘This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies:

⁵that Aaron and his sons have come in, in the journeying of the camp, and have taken down the vail of the hanging, and have covered with it the ark of the testimony;

⁶and have put on it a covering of badger skin, and have spread a garment completely of blue above, and have placed its staves.

⁷‘And on the table of the presence they spread a garment of blue, and have put on it the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the cups of the libation, and the bread of continuity is on it,

⁸and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves,

⁹and have taken a garment of blue, and have covered the candlestick of the lamp, and its lights, and its snuffers, and its snuff-dishes, and all its oil vessels wherewith they minister to it;

¹⁰and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar.

¹¹‘And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves;

¹²and have taken all the vessels of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and have put them unto a garment of blue, and have covered them with a covering of badger skin, and have put them on the bar,

¹³and have removed the ashes of the altar, and have spread over it a garment of purple;

¹⁴and have put on it all its vessels wherewith they minister about it, the censers, the hooks, and the shovels, and the bowls, all the vessels of the altar, and have spread on it a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves:

¹⁵‘And Aaron hath finished -- his sons also -- covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear it, and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

¹⁶‘And the oversight of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, is the oil of the lamp, and the spice-perfume, and the present of continuity, and the anointing oil, the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that is in it, in the sanctuary, and in its vessels.'

¹⁷And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

¹⁸‘Ye do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathite from the midst of the Levites;

¹⁹but this do to them, and they have lived, and do not die in their drawing nigh the holy of holies: -- Aaron and his sons go in, and have set them, each man to his service, and unto his burden,

²⁰and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

²¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

²²‘Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families;

²³from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting.

²⁴‘This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve -- and for burden,

²⁵and they have borne the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of the badger skin which is on it above, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,

²⁶and the hangings of the court, and the vail at the opening of the gate of the court which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the vessels of their service, and all that is made for them -- and they have served.

²⁷‘By the command of Aaron and his sons is all the service of the sons of the Gershonite in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye have laid a charge on them concerning the charge of all their burden.

²⁸This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge is under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

²⁹‘The sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers, thou dost number them;

³⁰from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to the host, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

³¹‘And this is the charge of their burden, of all their service in the tent of meeting; the boards of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets,

³²and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, of all their vessels, and of all their service; and by name ye do number the vessels of the charge of their burden.

³³‘This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'

³⁴And Moses numbereth -- Aaron also, and the princes of the company -- the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

³⁵from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

³⁶and their numbered ones, by their families, are two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

³⁷These are those numbered of the families of the Kohathite, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

³⁸And those numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

³⁹from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁰even their numbered ones, by their families, by the house of their fathers, are two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

⁴¹These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, every one who is serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the command of Jehovah.

⁴²And those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by the house of their fathers,

⁴³from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to the host, for service in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁴even their numbered ones, by their families, are three thousand and two hundred.

⁴⁵These are those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶All those numbered, whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also, and the princes of Israel -- of the Levites, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

⁴⁷from a son of thirty years and upward even unto a son of fifty years, every one who is going in to do the work of the service, even the service of burden in the tent of meeting,

⁴⁸even their numbered ones are eight thousand and five hundred and eighty;

⁴⁹by the command of Jehovah hath one numbered them, by the hand of Moses, each man by his service, and by his burden, with his numbered ones, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.