Douay Rheims Original ↷
Numbers 1 📜 📕 ↷
First Census of Israel
1 AND our Lord spake to Moyses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of AEgypt, saying:📜💬📚
2 Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel by their kindreds, & houses, and the names of every one, whatsoever of the male sex,📜💬📚
3 from the twentieth year and upward, of all the strong men of Israel, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.📜💬📚
4 And there shall be with you the Princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,📜💬📚
Leaders of the Tribes
5 whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elizur the son of Sedeur.📜💬📚
6 Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.📜💬📚
7 Of Juda, Nahasson, the son of Aminadab.📜💬📚
8 Of Issachar, Nathanael the son of Suar.📜💬📚
9 Of Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon.📜💬📚
10 And of the sons of Joseph, of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Ammiud. Of Manasses, Gamaliel, the son of Phadassur.📜💬📚
11 Of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gedeon.📜💬📚
12 Of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.📜💬📚
13 Of Aser, Phegiel the son of Ochran.📜💬📚
14 Of Gad, Eliazaph the son of Duel.📜💬📚
15 Of Nephthali, Ahira the son of Enan.📜💬📚
16 These are the most noble Princes of the multitude by their tribes & kindreds, and the heads of the host of Israel:📜💬📚
Number of Every Tribe
17 whom Moyses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:📜💬📚
18 and assembled them the first day of the second month, reckoning them by the kindred, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from the twentieth year and upward,📜💬📚
19 as our Lord had commanded Moyses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.📜💬📚
20 Of Ruben the first begotten of Israel, by their generations and families and houses, and names of every head, all that is of the male sex, from the twentieth year & upward, of them that go forth to war,📜💬📚
21 forty six thousand five hundred.📜💬📚
22 Of the sons of Simeon by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names & heads of every one, all that is of the male sex from the twentieth year and upward, of them that go forth to war,📜💬📚
23 fifty nine thousand three hundred.📜💬📚
24 Of the sons of Gad, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that went forth to war,📜💬📚
25 forty five thousand six hundred fifty.📜💬📚
26 Of the sons to Juda by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
27 were reckoned seventy four thousand six hundred.📜💬📚
28 Of the sons of Issachar, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from the twentieth year & upward, all that went forth to war,📜💬📚
29 were reckoned fifty four thousand four hundred.📜💬📚
30 Of the sons of Zabulon, by the generations, & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
31 fifty seven thousand four hundred.📜💬📚
32 Of the sons of Joseph, namely of the sons of Ephraim by the generations, families and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one, from the twentieth year & upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
33 forty thousand five hundred.📜💬📚
34 Moreover of the sons of Manasses, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
35 thirty two thousand two hundred.📜💬📚
36 Of the sons of Benjamin by the generations & families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
37 thirty five thousand four hundred.📜💬📚
38 Of the sons of Dan, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from twenty years and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
39 sixty two thousand seven hundred.📜💬📚
40 Of the sons of Aser, by the generations and families and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
41 forty thousand and a thousand five hundred.📜💬📚
42 Of the sons of Nephthali, by the generations, and families, and houses of their kindreds were reckoned by the names of every one from the twentieth year and upward, all that could go forth to war,📜💬📚
43 fifty three thousand four hundred.📜💬📚
44 These are they, whom Moyses and Aaron numbered, and the twelve Princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.📜💬📚
45 And the whole number of the children of Israel by their houses and families, from the twentieth year and upward, that could go to war,📜💬📚
46 were six hundred three thousand men five hundred fifty.📜💬📚
Exemption of the Levites
47 But the Levites in the tribe of their families were not numbered with them.📜💬📚
48 And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:📜💬📚
49 Number not the tribe of Levi, neither shalt thou put the sum of them with the children of Israel:📜💬📚
50 but appoint them over the tabernacle of testimony, and all the vessel thereof, and whatsoever pertaineth to the ceremonies. They shall carry the tabernacle and all the furniture thereof: and they shall be in the ministry, and shall pitch round about the tabernacle.📜💬📚
51 When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, he shall be slain.📜💬📚
52 And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and host.📜💬📚
53 Moreover the Levites shall pitch their tents round about the tabernacle.📜💬📚
54 The children of Israel thereof did according to all things which our Lord had commanded Moyses.📜💬📚
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