New English Translation

Numbers 1:11-22 New English Translation (NET)

11. from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

12. from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

13. from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

14. from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

15. from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

16. These were the ones chosen from the community, leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

17. So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,

18. and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,

19. just as the Lord had commanded Moses. And so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20. And they were as follows:The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

21. Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

22. From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.