1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2. "Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head
3. from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4. With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.
5. These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;
6. of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
7. of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;
8. of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;
9. of Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;
10. of the sons of Joseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;
11. of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;
12. of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;