1 Now the Loʀᴅ spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 “ANum 1:52; 24:2The sons of Israel shall camp, each by his own standard, with the 1Lit signsbanners of their fathers’ households; they shall camp around the tent of meeting 2Or facing itat a distance. 3  “Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Judah: ANum 1:7; 10:14; Ruth 4:20; 1 Chr 2:10; Luke 3:32, 33Nahshon the son of Amminadab, 4 and his army, even their 1Lit mustered, and so throughout the chnumbered men, 74,600. 5  “Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, and the leader of the sons of Issachar: ANum 1:8; 7:18, 23Nethanel the son of Zuar, 6 and his army, even their numbered men, 54,400. 7  “Then comes the tribe of Zebulun, and the leader of the sons of Zebulun: ANum 1:9Eliab the son of Helon, 8 and his army, even his numbered men, 57,400. 9  “The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. ANum 10:14They shall set out first.

10 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Reuben: ANum 1:5Elizur the son of Shedeur, 11 and his army, even their numbered men, 46,500. 12  “Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of the sons of Simeon: ANum 1:6Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, 13 and his army, even their numbered men, 59,300. 14  “Then comes the tribe of Gad, and the leader of the sons of Gad: ANum 1:14; 7:42Eliasaph the son of 1Many mss read ReuelDeuel, 15 and his army, even their numbered men, 45,650. 16  “The total of the numbered men of the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And ANum 10:18they shall set out second.

17 “ANum 1:53Then the tent of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

18 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of AGen 48:14-20; Jer 31:9, 18-20Ephraim by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Ephraim shall be BNum 1:10Elishama the son of Ammihud, 19 and his army, even their numbered men, 40,500. 20  “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the sons of Manasseh: ANum 1:10Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, 21 and his army, even their numbered men, 32,200. 22  “Then comes the tribe of APs 68:27Benjamin, and the leader of the sons of Benjamin: BNum 1:11Abidan the son of Gideoni, 23 and his army, even their numbered men, 35,400. 24  “The total of the numbered men of the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And ANum 10:22they shall set out third.

25 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Dan: ANum 1:12Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, 26 and his army, even their numbered men, 62,700. 27  “Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, and the leader of the sons of Asher: ANum 1:13Pagiel the son of Ochran, 28 and his army, even their numbered men, 41,500. 29  “Then comes the tribe of AGen 30:8Naphtali, and the leader of the sons of Naphtali: BNum 1:15Ahira the son of Enan, 30 and his army, even their numbered men, 53,400. 31  “The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600. ANum 10:25They shall set out last by their standards.”

32 These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, AEx 38:26; Num 1:46603,550. 33 ANum 1:47; 26:57-62The Levites, however, were not numbered among the sons of Israel, just as the Loʀᴅ had commanded Moses. 34 Thus the sons of Israel did; according to all that the Loʀᴅ commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, every one by his family according to his father’s household.