Numbers 1:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the Tent of Meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying,

² Take a census of all the males of the congregation of the Israelites by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head.

³ From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war you and Aaron shall number, company by company.