The Book of Numbers: Extract from King James Version Bible

The children of Israel are numbered: the Levites are designed to serve the tabernacle.


1:1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying:


1:2. Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,


1:3. From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.


1:4. And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,


1:5. Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.


1:6. Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.


1:7. Of Juda, Nahasson the son of Aminadab.


1:8. Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.


1:9. Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.


1:10. And of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud: of Manasses, Gamaliel the son of Phadassur.