A reading from the Book of Numbers.

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month,

and the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by father's houses,

according to the number of names, every male, head by

head, from 20 years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron

shall list them, company by company, and there shall be with you a man from each tribe,

each man being the head of the house of his fathers, and these are the names of the men who shall assist you.

From Rubin, Elizer, the son of Shadir, from Simeon, Shilumiel, the son of Zorochadai,

from Judah, Nashan, the son of Aminadab, from Isakar, Nathano, the son of Zouar,

from Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon, from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim,

Elishima, the son of Amhyhood, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Padazer, from Benjamin,

Abidon, the son of Gideon, from Dan, Aezer, the son of Amishadai, from Asher,agiel, the son of Okron, from Gad, Eliasaf, the son of

Duel, from Naftoli, Ahira the son of Enan. These were the ones chosen from the congregation,

the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel. Moses and Aaron took

these men who had been named, and on the

first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered

themselves by clans, by father's houses, according to the number of names from 20 years old and

upward, head by head, as the Lord commanded Moses, so he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.

The people of Rubin, Israel's firstborn, their generations by their clans, by their father's houses,

according to the number of names, head by head, every male from 20 years old and upward,

all who were able to go to war, those listed of the tribe of Rubin were 46,500. Of the people of Simeon,

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