Numbers 1:1-3

Modern English Version

Israel’s First Census

1 And 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 went out from the land of Egypt, saying: ² Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls, ³ from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron will number them by their armies.