1. And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the covenant, on the first day of the second month, in the year after their departure from Egypt, saying:
2. "Take a total of the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, by their families and houses, and the names of each one, of whomever is of the male sex,
3. from twenty years and above, of all the able-bodied men out of Israel, and you shall number them by their companies, you and Aaron.
4. And there shall be with you the leaders of the tribes, as well as of the houses, in their kinships,
5. the names of whom are these: of Ruben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6. of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7. of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8. of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Zuar;