"Take ye the sum of all the multitude of the children of Israel, in their kindreds and households of their fathers and number them by name all that are males, poll by poll, from twenty years and above: even all that are able to go forth into war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them in their armies. read more.
And with you shall be, of every tribe, a head man in the house of his father. "And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: in Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; In Simeon, Shelumiel: the son of Zurishaddai; In the tribe of Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; In Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar; In Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon. Among the children of Joseph: In Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; In Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; In Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeoni; In Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai; In Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran; In Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel; In Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan." These were councilors of the congregation and lords in the tribes of their fathers and captains over thousands in Israel. And Moses and Aaron took these men, above named, and gathered all the congregation together, the first day of the second month, and reckoned them after their birth and kindreds and houses of their fathers by name from twenty years and above, head by head; as the LORD commanded Moses, even so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, in their generations, kindreds and houses of their fathers - when they were numbered every man by name, all that were males from twenty years and above, as many as were able to go forth in war - were numbered in the tribe of Reuben, forty six thousand and five hundred. Among the children of Simeon, their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers - when every man's name was told, of all the males from twenty years and above, whatsoever was meet for the war -