Numbers 1:1-3

Complete Jewish Bible

Parashah 34: B’midbar (In the desert) 1:1–4:20

1 Adonai spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month of the second year after they had left the land of Egypt. He said, ² “Take a census of the entire assembly of the people of Isra’el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men ³ twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra’el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.