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Numbers 1:32-51 English Standard Version (ESV)

32. Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

33. those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

34. Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

35. those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

36. Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

37. those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

38. Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

39. those listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

40. Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

41. those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

42. Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

43. those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

44. These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house.

45. So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel—

46. all those listed were 603,550.

47. But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.

48. For the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

49. “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.

50. But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.

51. When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.