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1And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2“The children of Israel shall camp, each by his flag with the signs of their fathers’ house; they shall camp opposite, all around the Tent of Meeting.133 3And the ones camping on the east: to the east is the flag of Judah’s camp by their armies. And the chieftain of the children of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab, 4and his army and its counts are seventy-four thousand six hundred. 5And the ones camping next to it are: the tribe of Issachar. And the chieftain of the children of Issachar is Nethanel son of Zuar, 6and his army and its counts are fifty-four thousand four hundred. 7The tribe of Zebulun. And the chieftain of the children of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon, 8and his army and its counts are fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 9All the counts of Judah’s camp are one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred by their army units. They shall travel first.

10“The flag of Reuben’s camp on the south by their armies. And the chieftain of the children of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur, 11and his army and its counts are forty-six thousand five hundred. 12And the ones camping next to it are: the tribe of Simeon. And the chieftain of the children of Simeon is Shelumiel son of Zurishadday, 13and his army and their counts are fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 14And the tribe of Gad. And the chieftain of the children of Gad is Eliasaph son of Reuel, 15and his army and their counts are forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. l6All the counts of Reuben’s camp are one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty by their army units. And they shall travel second.

17“And the Tent of Meeting, the Levites’ camp, shall travel inside the camps. As they camp, so they shall travel: each at his position by their flags.

l8“The flag of Ephraim’s camp by their armies on the west. And the chieftain of the children of Ephraim is Elishama son of Ammihud, 19and his army and their counts are forty thousand five hundred. 20And next to it: the camp of Manasseh. And the chieftain of the children of Manasseh is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, 21and his army and their counts are thirty-two thousand two hundred. 22And the tribe of Benjamin. And the chieftain of the children of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni, 23and his army and their counts are thirty-five thousand four hundred. 24All the counts of Ephraim’s camp are one hundred eight thousand one hundred by their army units. And they shall travel third.

25“The flag of Dan’s camp on the north by their armies. And the chieftain of the children of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishadday, 26and his army and their counts are sixty-two thousand seven hundred. 27And the ones camping next to it are: the tribe of Asher. And the chieftain of the children of Asher is Pagiel son of Ochran, 28and his army and their counts are forty-one thousand five hundred. 29And the tribe of Naphtali. And the chieftain of the children of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan, 30and his army and their counts are fifty-three thousand four hundred. 31All the counts of Dan’s camp are one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall travel last, by their flags.”

32These are the counts of the children of Israel by their fathers’ house, all the counts of the camps by their armies: six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 33And the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel, as YHWH had commanded Moses. 34And the children of Israel did according to all that YHWH commanded Moses. So they camped by their flags, and so they traveled, each by his families, by his fathers’ house.