New Living Translation

Numbers 1:16-48 New Living Translation (NLT)

16. These are the chosen leaders of the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.”

17. So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders,

18. and they assembled the whole community of Israel on that very day. All the people were registered according to their ancestry by their clans and families. The men of Israel who were twenty years old or older were listed one by one,

19. just as the lord had commanded Moses. So Moses recorded their names in the wilderness of Sinai.

44. These were the men registered by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, all listed according to their ancestral descent.

45. They were registered by families—all the men of Israel who were twenty years old or older and able to go to war.

46. The total number was 603,550.

47. But this total did not include the Levites.

48. For the lord had said to Moses,