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Israel at Mount Sinai 1:1–10:10
Israel Numbered and Arranged 1:1–4:49
The Census of Israel’s Warriors 1:1–54

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Israel at Mount Sinai 1:1–10:10
Israel Numbered and Arranged 1:1–4:49
The Census of Israel’s Warriors 1:1–54
The Order of the Camps 2:1–34
The Levites 3:1–4:49
The Sons of Aaron 3:1–4
The Duties of the Levites 3:5–13
The Registration of the Levites from One Month Old 3:14–39
The Gershonites 3:21–26
The Kohathites 3:27–32
The Merarites 3:33–36
Moses and Aaron 3:37–39
The Redemption of the Firstborn 3:40–51
The Duties of the Clans of Levi 4:1–33
The Kohathites 4:1–20
The Gershonites 4:21–28
The Merarites 4:29–33
The Numbering of the Levites from Thirty to Fifty 4:34–49
Purification of the Camp 5:1–10:10
Ritually Unclean Excluded from the Camp 5:1–4
Confession and Restitution 5:5–10
The Adultery Test 5:11–31
The Nazirite Vow 6:1–21
The Aaronic Blessing 6:22–27
The Offerings of Dedication from the Twelve Tribes 7:1–89
The Lampstand 8:1–4
The Cleansing of the Levites 8:5–26
The Second Passover 9:1–14
The Cloud Above the Tabernacle 9:15–23
The Two Silver Trumpets 10:1–10
The Journey from Sinai to Paran 10:11–12:16
Israel Leaves Mount Sinai 10:11–36
The People Complain 11:1–35
The Burning at Taberah 11:1–3
The Complaints About Food 11:4–35
Israel Eats Manna 11:4–9
Seventy Elders Anointed 11:10–17
The Quail and the Plague 11:18–35
The Complaint of Miriam and Aaron 12:1–16
Israel in the Wilderness of Paran 13:1–19:22
The Twelve Spies 13:1–15:41
The Spies Explore Canaan 13:1–24
The Report of the Spies 13:25–33
Israel’s Rebellion 14:1–45
Joshua and Caleb Intercede 14:1–12
Moses Intercedes 14:13–19
God’s Forgiveness and Judgement 14:20–39
The Defeat at Hormah 14:40–45
God’s Call to Obedience 15:1–41
The Drink Offerings 15:1–21
Offerings for Unintentional Sins 15:22–31
The Sabbath-Breaker Stoned 15:32–36
The Law of Tassels 15:37–41
Korah’s Rebellion 16:1–18:32
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram 16:1–37
The Earth Swallows and Fire Consumes 16:28–40
Aaron Halts the Plague 16:41–50
Aaron’s Staff Buds 17:1–13
Priests and Levites’ Duties 18:1–32
The Red Heifer 19:1–22
The Offering of the Red Heifer 19:1–10
The Water of Purification 19:11–22
The Journey from Paran to the Plains of Moab 20:1–21:35
The Death of Miriam 20:1
The Sin of Moses and Aaron 20:2–13
Edom Refuses Passage 20:14–21
The Death of Aaron 20:22–29
The Defeat of Arad 21:1–3
The Bronze Serpent 21:4–9
The Journey to Moab 21:10–20
The Defeat of Sihon 21:21–30
The Defeat of Og 21:31–35
Israel in the Plains of Moab 22:1–36:13
Balaam and the King of Moab 22:1–25:18
Balak, King of Moab, hires Balaam 22:1–21
The Angel and Balaam’s Donkey 22:22–41
Balaam Blesses Israel 23:1–24:25
The Baal of Peor Incident 25:1–18
Moab Seduces Israel 25:1–5
The Zeal of Phinehas 25:6–18
The Second Census 26:1–65
Instructions for the Second Generation 27:1–30:16
The Daughters of Zelophehad 27:1–11
Moses’ Successor 27:12–23
The Offerings 28:1–29:40
Daily Offerings 28:1–8
The Sabbath Offerings 28:9–10
The Monthly Offerings 28:11–15
The Festival Offerings 28:16–29:40
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread 28:16–25
The Feast of Weeks 28:26–31
The Feast of Trumpets 29:1–6
The Day of Atonement 29:7–11
The Feast of Tabernacles 29:12–40
Laws about Vows 30:1–16
Vengeance on Midian 31:1–54
The Tribes East of the Jordan 32:1–42
Final Preparations to Enter the Promised Land 33:1–36:13
Summary of the Wilderness Journeys 33:1–49
Instructions for Occupying Canaan 33:50–56
The Boundaries of Canaan 34:1–29
The Inheritance of the Levites 35:1–34
The Forty-Eight Levitical Cities 35:1–8
The Six Cities of Refuge 35:9–34
The Inheritance of the Daughters of Zelophehad 36:1–13

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1 On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

2 “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

3 You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

4 And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.

5 These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

7 from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;

9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;

10 from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;

11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

15 and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

16 These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.

17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

18 and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

19 just as the LORD had commanded Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:

20 From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

21 those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

22 From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

23 those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

24 From the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

25 those registered to the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

26 From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

27 those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

28 From the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

29 those registered to the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

30 From the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

31 those registered to the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

32 From the sons of Joseph: From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

33 those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

34 And from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

35 those registered to the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

36 From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

37 those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

38 From the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

39 those registered to the tribe of Dan numbered 62,700.

40 From the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

41 those registered to the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.

42 From the sons of Naphtali, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

43 those registered to the tribe of Naphtali numbered 53,400.

44 These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.

45 So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.

46 And all those counted totaled 603,550.

47 The Levites, however, were not numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.

48 For the LORD had said to Moses:

49 “Do not number the tribe of Levi in the census with the other Israelites.

50 Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

52 The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

53 But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”

54 Thus the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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