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Take a census of[a] the entire community of the Israelites[b] according to their clans and their families,[c] according to the number of names, every male individually from twenty years old[d] and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them[e] for their wars. A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of his family.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:2 Literally “Lift up the head of”
  2. Numbers 1:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Numbers 1:2 Literally “the house of their fathers”
  4. Numbers 1:3 Literally “a son of twenty years”
  5. Numbers 1:3 Or “count them,” or “summon them,” or “enroll them”
  6. Numbers 1:4 Literally “the house of his father”