As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai.

The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;

Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered.

The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered.

These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe.

So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,

Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.

And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred.

Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place.

Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.

All the Levites numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord, all the males of one month old and over numbered in the order of their families, were twenty-two thousand.

Numbering all those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting;

This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting,

Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.

This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

Who were numbered by families, were three thousand, two hundred.

And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport,

At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.

Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.

These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons;

All the oxen, for the burned offering were twelve, the male sheep twelve, the he-lambs of the first year twelve, with their meal offering; and the males of the goats for sin-offering twelve;

And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean.

And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

And there were certain men who were unclean because of a dead body, so that they were not able to keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:

Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.

And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

This was the order in which the children of Israel were journeying by armies; so they went forward.

Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.

But two men were still in the tent-circle one of them named Eldad and the other Medad: and the spirit came to rest on them; they were among those who had been sent for, but they had not gone out to the Tent: and the prophet's power came on them in the tent-circle.

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!

And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.

And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.

They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,

But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.

And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.

Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.

And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;

And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

So Eleazar the priest took the brass vessels which had been offered by those who were burned up, and they were hammered out to make a cover for the altar:

Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.

And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.

And the people were angry with Moses and said, If only death had overtaken us when our brothers came to their death before the Lord!

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.

But God was moved to wrath because he went: and the angel of the Lord took up a position in the road to keep him from his purpose. Now he was seated on his ass, and his two servants were with him.

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.

And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.

Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.

And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.

These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.

And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.